[sllug-members]: Router advice

[Tyson Rasmussen]

You're right looks like I didn't look close enough at the specs of the 
routers I was looking at.  I remember just seeing these at work and 
thought those were eth ports.  Next time I'll look a little closer.

Tyson

Corey Edwards wrote:
> No, I don't think so. The model you're pointing to has 2 serial
> connections (for a T1 DSU) and a single ethernet. The 8 and 16 ports are
> part of an integrated hub and would be the exact same as plugging into
> any other hub, meaning you can't route between ports.
>
> I'd try something like this:
>
> http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=30_34&products_id=75
>
> Get the 4 port ethernet card and you'll have 5 ports. Mikrotik is a
> Linux-based OS and it's quite good.
>
> Corey
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:02 -0600, Tyson Rasmussen wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
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