Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:58:22 -0500 To: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?
Just to play with, I purchased a soekris net5501 board (very nice board for that price) and planning to start playing with it using FreeBSD. I took a look at the RouterBoard but the firmware license is too restrictive and there is no much hacking (well there is always a way to hack) you can do, but they are dirty cheap.
Cheers Jorge
You can cross-compile openwrt for RouterBoard (check which models, though), and that would mean no license fee for the software. Maybe that voids some warranty, but if warrantys for sub-US$100 equipment are really worth anything, what would anybody offer me for several dozen mostly Linksys with some D-Link, Netgear and at least one each of Dynix and Belkin SOHO routers? Also, the Mikrotik RouterOS license is bundled with the hardware purchase, too, so it might be years before you'd need to spend another US$45 to update that to a new version, if you want to run RouterOS instead of something else. Dale