On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
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> On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
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>> On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget(a)gmail.com
>> <mailto:ronald.gadget@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Peter,
>> >
>> > what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
>> hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
>> >
>>
>> Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single
>> 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
>
>
> A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option
> with 4 ports.
>
>
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t
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> There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based
> systems like this:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
>
Well I learned something.
DON'T get a wnr854t; turns out they have real power problems:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t/glod
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28062
http://www.imovedtolinux.com/2008/11/fix-for-netgear-wnr854t-green-ring-o...
I am working with the ebay seller on a rma. :(
after a lot of advice at openwrt, I am going with the tp-wdr3600.
I have learned a lot about the LAN port design on these boxes, and how
really the SCO has only one or two ethernet ports; all the rest is done with
fancy drivers to handle each separately. See
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g for how linksys did it. It would
be nice to see such designs implemented and supported for arm.
Yes, most cheap routers have a cheap 5-6 port switch chip, that in
some cases can do vlans when configured via something like GPIO, but
the actual router itself only has a single ethernet port.
Peter