On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 13:54:45 +0000, Smith, David wrote:
I've got a soft spot for Mikrotik's RouterBoard hardware, mostly from a previous job where their hardware and software ran pretty much the whole network. A five-port router, Gigabit ports, including their software (a modified Linux with a decent Windows GUI), for sixty dollars, is a pretty good bargain.
These boxes are a lot better than people expect and make for excellent home routers for those that like to tinker - they are incredibly flexible for configurations.
That being said, they do have their quirks to them and can be frustrating when you hit it (ie: don't expect cisco tac). But that only crops up in rare situations these days.
The hardware is a fairly standard MIPS-BE board; I've never done so, but you could probably put your own favorite embedded OS on there, in lieu of their version of Linux.
Had a friend try successfully for a project - according to him the biggest issue was the lack of a floating point chip (it gets emulated very slowly), so your code needs to take that into account.
Cheers, Ross. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
