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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: small device with IP address
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?). | | 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 [email protected] recently. 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 lives in Taiwan, their local prices are much cheaper than the prices for export. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [email protected] | [email protected] | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: Adrian Steinmann <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:14:22 +0100 To: "Michael C . Wu" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Small FreeBSD Implementation questions Cc: Jon Bebeau <[email protected]>, [email protected] Content-Length: 1868 Lines: 47 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 _________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Adrian Steinmann Steinmann Consulting Apollostrasse 21 8032 Zurich Tel +41 1 380 30 83 Fax +41 1 380 30 85 Mailto:[email protected] Attachment:
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