Dana, EasyTomato on the Asus RT-N16 comes to mind. It's what I run at home. Super reliable and both easy and "advanced" functions.
It has SSH access, local logging and remote logging capabilities. I had a microtik before but there was some kind of bug in the wireless and it was never reliable. --Ryan > On Apr 25, 2015, at 09:39, Dana Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey folks - wanted to tap the collective wisodm of the folks here. I am > looking for suggestions on good home networking gear, especially a wireless > access point, that have things like good logging, perhaps command line > access, that allow me to troubleshoot problems in the network, and in > particular provide enough detail to show what problems might have happened > earlier in the day. > > here's my constraints - i'd like to spend in the normal consumer range for > the gear (<$200 US), and really I don't want to have to spend a lot of time > setting things up. I don't want to spend lots of time at home being the IT > guy, but I have some baffling networking problems at home and I need more > visibility into what's happening when there are problems. Probably the ideal > is normal consumer hardware that has good logging and allows something like > command line access. I'm good with rooting something if it's a well-trod path > and is still easy to set up. > > Here's what I'm hoping for - at work when I have problems with servers or > networking, i have good tools to figure things out - good system logging on > the linux systems, and usually i can coax good logs out of the network gear. > So when there's a problem, i have a good way to go in and see what happened. > But I have these baffling drops in connectivity in my network. One thing > I think is possible is that my wireless ap is losing its mind occasionally > and rebooting, I can't even really tell if that's happening. With good > system logs from the device I'd be able to. > > So at minimum you can read this as a request for a good, affordable consumer > grade wireless ap that has better than consumer management capabilities, > including perhaps ability to allow command line shell access to view logs, > perhaps forward logs off the device, and so on. > > Thanks for any suggestions on this question! > > Dana > > -- > Dana Quinn > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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