+1 for the concept. We use Banana Pi's running Debian for smokeping remotes and iperf. They have gig ports and have enough CPU to take advantage of them. We started with rPi's but their Ethernet couldn't keep up. Costs under $100 for a board, box, and sd card.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Christopher Tyler <ch...@totalhighspeed.net > wrote: > If all you want is something to connect to remotely and don't need an > actual Windows desktop, you could use a Raspberry Pi Zero with a USB > Ethernet adapter attached for the whopping sum of about $40. Of course you > would need -some- linux know how as well unless someone was willing to > write up a basic interface or test suite for easy consumption. Makes for a > very inexpensive tap. > > -- > Christopher Tyler > MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE > Total Highspeed Internet Services > 417.851.1107 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:19:38 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Small PC for remote Troubleshooting > > this was mentioned on slashdot last week: > https://www.solid-run.com/product/solidpc-q4-carrier/#configuration > > -sean > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Gino Villarini <ginovi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > What you guys suggest for a remote displayless PC that we can use at > > remote sites for troubleshooting/remote access via 4g? > > > > Case is that sometimes its quicker for our engineers to have remote > access > > to equipment via a remote desktop session than going step by step with > our > > field techs or tower crews. > > > > we just need browser, winbox, terminal > > > > lan port should be able to have vlan configured > > >
