--- jo3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well; > > I bought an open brick the day after Bao C. Ha gave > his presentation at > SOCALWUG a couple years back, and as of this date I > have not ever had it > running correctly (he confirmed its defectiveness at > the last LALUG > meeting). So, I would hardly consider the open > brick as the functional > equivalent of the WRT54G.
An interesting datapoint that I shall bear in mind. Exactly what has been defective? > Further, the price > differential, especially > considering you still have to purchase radio cards, > means your "longer > usage" would have to be five to eight times the > lifespan of a WRT54G. > Why not just look at the WRT54G as today's > "disposable" solution, build > out the rest of your infrastructure with upgrades in > mind, and just swap > them out when the next generation of hardware > reaches the same commodity > price point? A resonable perspective. I'm worried about the fact that the WRT54G has a fixed amount of RAM (soldered to the board, not socketed) and that the 2.6 kernels plus racoon user-space tools are going to take up an increasing amount of space. I like the idea of being able to put an IBM microdrive in to accomodate future bloat and it seems that the Soekris _or_ OpenBrick stuff might offer that option more easily. I am put off by the price though. (As it stands it's over double the price). > > I know there is a strong anti-LinkSys bias in this > WUG, but we here at > brats.com have been using them successfully in our > WISP for some six > months with very few problems. I am a relative newcomer to the WUG and have no preconceptions, bias or slant so don't assume that I'm adopting some sort of groupthink on this. > > Sveasoft has delivered on previous "coming features" > in a reasonable > amount of time, and to my mind, discounting sveasoft > based on a > groundless assumption about their development cycle > is just as illogical > as putting all your faith in an open brick without > actually ever having > used one. A valid, if hostile response. However I'm making no "assumptions about their development cycle", just looking at what's available now. ;) To move this beyond mere trading of hostile assumptions I'll point out that w.r.t VPN stuff there are good reports of the OpenWRT stuff http://openwrt.ksilebo.net/forum/index.php > > Jo3 > <snip bottom-quoted mail> As I mention above, I have no pre-conceptions about this and no SOCALWUG-indoctrination against Linksys. I'm interested to hear your experience with OpenBrick and Linksys products, and completely non-interested in being inserted into some pre-existing flamewar. Best wishes, Oisin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
