[sllug-members]: Router advice

[Kurt Mahan]

I'm looking for some advice on a router.  The requirements are:

  - cheap
  - low power (not an 'x86 box chock-full-o-netcards)
  - 5+ 10/100 network ports - each able to route a separate net
  - preferably diskless (flash/cf/whatever based)
  - did I mention cheap?

I've got several test nets.  Currently I take a linux box, stuff a lot of
network cards into it, and setup routing between them.  Very easy to do.
But annoying in that it takes a lot of power, is noisy, and a waste of
hardware resources for something that should be easy and fit on a shelf 
in the network closet (or in the 19" rack)..

I've seen lots of cheap little "Routers" but they all only route a single net.

Suggestions?  Anyone got a little cisco with ports they want to part with?

Thanks!

Kurt

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