[fedora-arm] 4 port ethernet

[Tim Fletcher]

On 29/12/13 23:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote:
>> On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:ronald.gadget at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>  >
>>>  > Peter,
>>>  >
>>>  > what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and
>>> hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$?
>>>  >
>>>
>>> Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single
>>> 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans.
>>
>> A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option
>> with 4 ports.
>>
>> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t
>
> Interesting.  An ARMv5, though, so would need a Fedora remix for it and
> how current a ver at that?

It's very thin indeed on specs, only 32MB of ram etc

>>
>> There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer
>> based systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500
>>
> But no Fedora on MIPS.
>
> I know I can go with OpenWRT.  I would really not want to.  But if
> things don't start coming up my way, I may well have to.

As a router OS OpenWRT is pretty good, much less fuss than a full distro 
of Linux and very light indeed.

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim at night-shade.org.uk>