[fedora-arm] 4 port ethernet

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 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
>>
>> 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.

Yes, most cheap routers have a cheap 5-6 port switch chip, that in
some cases can do vlans when configured via something like GPIO, but
the actual router itself only has a single ethernet port.

Peter