ANTHONY JOSEPH MESSINA schrieb:
ok, i'll go with you on this. so this mini-router, does it have a hard
drive or a place that it could dynamically write data, because it seems
to me that samba will need to write data at will and for sure, ldap with
syncrepl or any caching program will need to write new data that is not
static to someplace.
what are the true capabilities of this router?
It's ASUS WL-500g Deluxe.
It has a 200 MHz broadcom/mipsel CPU, 4 MB flash, 32 MB ram, 2 USB2
ports, 5 network ports (to use as a switch or 5 separate network cards).
I connected a USB stick to one of the USB ports and the root filesystem
is there (instead of the 4 MB flash).
The router costs about 70 euro / 80 usd.
Capabilities? It's Linux, so it can do everything :)
http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware#head-34991459c386514e56db26b0f51743ce57d27af1
the cheapy routers that use firmware woun't be able to dynamically write
this data would they. any change to data would require a "firmware
upgrade".
Exactly - I replaced the original firmware with OpenWRT -
http://openwrt.org - a distro for such small routers listed in the link
I gave above.
also, how would you manage the router remotely? ssh? a web interface?
how would you alter any smb.conf settings?
It has a basic web interface (for setting network, dns, gateway,
wireless etc.), but yes, mostly with SSH.
i agree your router would be a cool thing, but you have very little
admin functionality.
SSH - exactly the same admin functionality as with a PC.
another option may be a refurb cheap computer with
a cheap network card which would do the same thing, but give you total
functionality.
But this means noise, disk, fan etc. - I don't want that.
this is what i did for the bds at my parent's house. i
got a dell outlet refurb for $240, installed fc4 and away we went.
So you paid 2x too much :)
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Tomasz Chmielewski
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