[fedora-arm] 4 port ethernet

[Robert Moskowitz]

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
>
> 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
>

Well I learned something.

DON'T get a wnr854t; turns out they have real power problems:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t/glod
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28062
http://www.imovedtolinux.com/2008/11/fix-for-netgear-wnr854t-green-ring-of.html

I am working with the ebay seller on a rma.  :(

after a lot of advice at openwrt, I am going with the tp-wdr3600.

I have learned a lot about the LAN port design on these boxes, and how 
really the SCO has only one or two ethernet ports; all the rest is done 
with fancy drivers to handle each separately.  See 
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g for how linksys did it. It 
would be nice to see such designs implemented and supported for arm.