I will second the WRT54GL with OpenWRT. I have a number of them
deployed. I run an OpenVPN tunnel from the WRT54GL to a Linux server
at our shop so I can remotely log into the box and carry out any tests
or changes needed.
On 11/17/2011 6:21 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, A. Chase Turner wrote:
I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a
LAN hub (behind a consumer-level cable modem) whose only purpose in
life is to send heartbeat (and simple quality of service metrics) to
a pre-configured central aggregation service on the WAN.
It sounds like all you need is a preconfigured device that can boot
up, be plugged into their LAN, do DHCP, and then talk to a "remote
monitoring station" at configured intervals. If you're willing to do
a bit of work pre-deployment, you could probably pick out an
inexpensive DD-WRT/OpenWRT compatible device (i.e. WRT54GL, or maybe a
more modern variant with more RAM/Flash) and with a tiny bit of
scripting, you're done.
Appneta looks even more appropriate, but I couldn't find anything
about pricing on them. The WRT54GL is definitely sub $100. The
trouble with this sort of thing is that from the docs, it seems alot
of the hardware kind of sort of works mostly, and the manufacturers
like to make serious enough changes with product revisions, such that
you can't be sure a device will work based solely on the model
number...you need to know what revision it is.
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