I'm looking for some sort of small *nix friendly appliance that I can put at the edge of certain wireless mesh networks.
That way, I can integrate some open source monitoring tools there and test bandwidth / connectivity. Nothing fancy, just maybe the likes of iperf or Nagios ncsa that can give me some sort of extra visibility at the edge. I've heard good things about the Soekris boards, particularly from guys in the BSD community. The problem is time and finances. I'm not sure that this is the best sort of solution, given those constraints. But it's one option. Another option is just using Cacti's ping latency tool. In the past, I've found that latency is a so-so way of telling how "full" a given pipe is (not perfect, but better than nothing). I could also, I suppose, configure Cacti to poll each node to give me a reading, but that is likely too detailed (but maybe necessary for certain nodes that prove to be difficult). If I had a place to rack a box remotely at these various sites, then I could use a lower end PC. Unfortunately, however, I'm likely going to limited to some sort of enclosure, hence the reason I'm looking at lower end appliances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
