Lucent Pipeline 130, Superpipe 95, or Superpipe 155. Cheap, Reasonably reliable, no external CSU-DSU required. Personally, I won't run Nat on them. It's been my experience that 9 out of 10 will work fine with Nat, but 1 will have odd problems and require reboots. -Ejay
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Gerald Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:57 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Low end router alternative?
I'm experimenting at home with hardware. I'm playing with low end T1 equipment at the moment. What is a low-cost router solution to hook to a CSU/DSU? (where I don't have to pay a ridiculous $800+ IOS relicensing fee preferably.)
With Cisco 2500's going on Ebay for $10-$30, I'd like to find something in the <$50 price range that will do basic routing and has an
RJ45 connector plus some serial way for me to hook the CSU/DSU in to it.
Bonus abilities would be built in DHCP, NAT, 1-1 NAT mapping, port mapping, and basic firewalling.
Maybe I'm looking at this too hard. Is there a cheap Smart-Jack to Ethernet conversion system out there I'm missing for small businesses?
I know the hardware has been around for a while and the software I'm looking for is not complicated. Maybe someone knows of a different OS that'll go on the cheap cisco routers like: http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/images/
...only with a heartbeat. (That's not going to stop me from downloading it and trying it though.)
Thanks for any suggestions on or off list.
Gerald