Alfie, have you used the Routerboard 230 or 240 products? Anyone else?
Could anyone else recommend other manufacturers of this type of hardware: an embedded system board with * a couple of NICs * PCMCIA * runs linux
This one, and its cheaper:
http://www.soekris.com/
Actually, I am really interested in this kind of hardware. But it's actually not really as cheap as it looks. (Bear in mind I am based in the UK so I am looking post-shipping price)
Most of these tiny embeded devices need $20-30 or powersupply, and same again for a case, and a bit of RAM... It looks like around £300 sterling to me all in. However, you can often pickup a bottom of the range Compaq/HP server for that price... (OK, not as small and neat!)
There are some really nice and neat little boxes, which would be good for a mid-priced box where you need the grunt.
...But for low end hardware it seems hard to beat the Linksys WRT54GS which is around £50 GPB from ebuyer.... This gets you 32Mb and a 200Mhz processor! (and 2 net cards, a small switch and a wireless radio!)
The "S" model is only starting to arrive in the UK so mine's on backorder, but I think it's easily available in the US?
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