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
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
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Ejay Hire wrote:
Lucent Pipeline 130, Superpipe 95, or Superpipe 155.
Well 2 minutes on Froogle tell me your definition of cheap and mine don't match. For the same price range I would get a netopia R4522 or 5300 which will reliably do NAT and all. With a little more research, I think I can better clarify that I'm looking for just about any router (<$50-100) that has a HSSI port and an RJ45 port. For what I'm looking for at the moment (experimenting) used/refurbished doesn't matter so long as it works. Gerald
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Gerald wrote:
With a little more research, I think I can better clarify that I'm looking for just about any router (<$50-100) that has a HSSI port and an RJ45
You ever hit send and then wish you could chase after that E-mail with a s/HSSI/v.35/ ? I was wrongly using the term. HSSI apparently cisco claimed. I was just looking for a router with a serial interface that will handle 1.5 Mb traffic which I've been told fits v.35. Gerald
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