[146605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Nov 17 09:23:04 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:21:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "A. Chase Turner" <chase@stumpy.com>
In-Reply-To: <5738C4CB-0114-40B7-9B6D-946F1DFD0104@stumpy.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, A. Chase Turner wrote:
> I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a LAN hub (behind a consumer-level cable modem) whose only purpose in life is to send heartbeat (and simple quality of service metrics) to a pre-configured central aggregation service on the WAN.
It sounds like all you need is a preconfigured device that can boot up, be
plugged into their LAN, do DHCP, and then talk to a "remote monitoring
station" at configured intervals. If you're willing to do a bit of work
pre-deployment, you could probably pick out an inexpensive DD-WRT/OpenWRT
compatible device (i.e. WRT54GL, or maybe a more modern variant with more
RAM/Flash) and with a tiny bit of scripting, you're done.
Appneta looks even more appropriate, but I couldn't find anything about
pricing on them. The WRT54GL is definitely sub $100. The trouble with
this sort of thing is that from the docs, it seems alot of the hardware
kind of sort of works mostly, and the manufacturers like to make serious
enough changes with product revisions, such that you can't be sure a
device will work based solely on the model number...you need to know what
revision it is.
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