Hey folks - wanted to tap the collective wisodm of the folks here. I am looking for suggestions on good home networking gear, especially a wireless access point, that have things like good logging, perhaps command line access, that allow me to troubleshoot problems in the network, and in particular provide enough detail to show what problems might have happened earlier in the day.
here's my constraints - i'd like to spend in the normal consumer range for the gear (<$200 US), and really I don't want to have to spend a lot of time setting things up. I don't want to spend lots of time at home being the IT guy, but I have some baffling networking problems at home and I need more visibility into what's happening when there are problems. Probably the ideal is normal consumer hardware that has good logging and allows something like command line access. I'm good with rooting something if it's a well-trod path and is still easy to set up. Here's what I'm hoping for - at work when I have problems with servers or networking, i have good tools to figure things out - good system logging on the linux systems, and usually i can coax good logs out of the network gear. So when there's a problem, i have a good way to go in and see what happened. But I have these baffling drops in connectivity in my network. One thing I think is possible is that my wireless ap is losing its mind occasionally and rebooting, I can't even really tell if that's happening. With good system logs from the device I'd be able to. So at minimum you can read this as a request for a good, affordable consumer grade wireless ap that has better than consumer management capabilities, including perhaps ability to allow command line shell access to view logs, perhaps forward logs off the device, and so on. Thanks for any suggestions on this question! Dana -- Dana Quinn da...@pobox.com
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