[sllug-members]: Router advice

[Tyson Rasmussen]

This sounds like what you would want 
http://www.routermall.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=29 if you 
need more ports than that they also sell a 2507 which has 16 ports for 
about 259$.

Tyson

Kurt Mahan wrote:
> 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
>
>