Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-19 Thread Barry O'Donovan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/11/11 17:34, Seth Mattinen wrote: Mikrotik RouterBoards are low cost and robust. It can be scripted to do things like call a specific URL every X minutes. Some models have just a single Ethernet port as well (they're designed to be used as

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-19 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 11/19/11 01:35 , Fearghas McKay wrote: On 17 Nov 2011, at 12:58, 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

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:58 AM, A. Chase Turner ch...@stumpy.com 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

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-19 Thread Joe Hamelin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:58 AM, A. Chase Turner ch...@stumpy.com wrote: I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a LAN hub... Why micro? Just get a pile of free for the carting-off old Pentium machines and run them headless with a BSD. Set them up to heartbeat to a

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-18 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 17 Nov 2011, at 12:58, 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

RE: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Krembs, Jesse
http://www.appneta.com/ might fit your need sets. Jesse Krembs - Data Network Architecture Planning FairPoint Communications | 800 Hinesburg Rd, South Burlington, VT 05403 | jkre...@fairpoint.com www.FairPoint.com| 802.951.1519 office | 802.735.4886 cell -Original Message- From: A.

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Jon Lewis
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

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 06:58:46AM -0600, 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

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Roy
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,

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Julien Gormotte
Le Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:59:46 -0800, Roy r.engehau...@gmail.com a écrit : I will second the WRT54GL with OpenWRT. That's one possibility. Any router compatible with OpenWRT would do an acceptable job. Another possibility may be more interesting : http://pcengines.ch/alix3d2.htm These ones

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/17/11 4:58 AM, 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

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:58 AM, A. Chase Turner ch...@stumpy.com 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