> On 18 Jan 2014, at 15:39, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: >>> >>>> On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@xxxxxxxxx >>>> <mailto:ronald.gadget@xxxxxxxxx>> 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 >>> >>> 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-of.html >> >> 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. Most of the modern routers have 2 Ethernet interfaces, normal setup is one dedicated wan/internet port and 1 internal port with a basic switch chip on it. -- Sent from a mobile device Tim Fletcher _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
