19 Nov
2011
19 Nov
'11
3:34 p.m.
On 11/19/11 01:35 , Fearghas McKay wrote:
On 17 Nov 2011, at 12:58, A. Chase Turner wrote:
I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a LAN hub (behind a consumer-level cable modem) whose only purpose in life is to send heartbeat (and simple quality of service metrics) to a pre-configured central aggregation service on the WAN.
Have a look at the Atlas project from RIPE - http://atlas.ripe.net/
Their hardware is aimed at costing 50€ including distribution etc. They have said they were not going to make it available but they might collaborate ?
HTH
http://ubnt.com/rspro is a board I've run openwrt on with a great deal of success. it's powerful enough to host rather a lot of things compared to a basic ap.
f