[33075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small device with IP address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C . Wu)
Sun Dec 24 14:27:15 2000
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 13:24:44 -0600
From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:23:45PM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson scribbled:
| Does anyone know if there is a device somewhere that is small, cheap, has
| 1 10mbit (or 100mbit) ethernet port and a small IP stack that enable you
| to set ip address and default gateway on it (dhcp perhaps?).
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| I would like to put something like this at some customers to use for
| pinging to see that the customer is reachable. Cost should preferrably be
| in the $50-$100 range.
No such devices at your price range exist that will do what you want.
Attached is a post to freebsd-small@freebsd.org recently. =20
I personally like the Advantech.com PCM5823, because it is the only
one that does not have a PoS Realtek ethernet chipset. (It has Intel 82559.)
http://www.advantech.com/products/PCM-5823.asp
If you really want El Cheapo :
http://www.advantech.com/products/PCM-4823.asp
http://www.advantech.com/products/PCM-5820.asp
Simply buy the single board computer, a 32mb CompactFlash disk,
and a case. Roll your own Linux (perhaps FreeBSD :P) CF image.
There are various already configured embedded *nix CF images
available somewhere online.
I am certain that they will give volume discounts. It would be
$500 per pop for the whole thing. Also, if you know anybody who=20
lives in Taiwan, their local prices are much cheaper than the=20
prices for export.
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From: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:14:22 +0100
To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Subject: Re: Small FreeBSD Implementation questions
Cc: Jon Bebeau <jbebeau@1nettw.net>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
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Google for "PC/104", "Embedded Systems", or "Small Board Computer"
and you will find more links than you'll ever need.
These are a few sites that are about "small" platforms:
http://wearables.stanford.edu/
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
http://www.aaeon.com/html/pcm4894.htm
http://www.advantech.com/
http://www.ampltd.com/processors.html
http://www.ampro.com/products/products.htm
http://www.arcom.co.uk/Elan104.html
http://www.arnoldco.com/bookpc/bookpc.html
http://www.brightstareng.com/
http://www.calibri.net/
http://www.compulab.co.il/486core.htm
http://www.diamondsystems.com/
http://www.dspdesign.com/ec586d.htm
http://www.eagle.co.za/4823.html
http://www.eepd.com/t5.htm
http://www.emjembedded.com/
http://www.fica.com/products/systems/Databook/Sahara1000/Sahara1000.stm
http://www.globalamericaninc.com/
http://www.inside.dk/
http://www.interpromicro.com/sy-saharaII2000spec.html
http://www.jumptec.com/dimmpcf.html
http://www.megatel.ca/pages/press.html
http://www.pc104.com/
http://www.rtdusa.com/cmx586.htm
http://www.siteplayer.com/docs/SitePlayer1x1.pdf
http://www.smos.com/
http://www.soekris.com/
http://www.tme-inc.com/
http://www.versalogic.com/Ds/VSBC6.htm
http://www.web-tronics.com/webtronics/com486cpuboa.html
http://www.zfmicro.com/
I have been very happy with fanless FreeBSD boxes built with
http://www.advantech.com/products/PCM-5820.asp
http://www.advantech.com/products/MBPC-200.asp
including either a laptop disk or 32MB Compact Flash (for firewalls).
Adrian Steinmann
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Dr. Adrian Steinmann Steinmann Consulting Apollostrasse 21 8032 Zurich
Tel +41 1 380 30 83 Fax +41 1 380 30 85 Mailto:ast@marabu.ch
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