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Lucent Pipeline 130, Superpipe 95, or Superpipe 155. Cheap, Reasonably reliable, no external CSU-DSU required. Personally, I won't run Nat on them. It's been my experience that 9 out of 10 will work fine with Nat, but 1 will have odd problems and require reboots. -Ejay > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gerald > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Low end router alternative? > > > I'm experimenting at home with hardware. I'm playing with low end T1 > equipment at the moment. What is a low-cost router solution > to hook to a > CSU/DSU? (where I don't have to pay a ridiculous $800+ IOS relicensing > fee preferably.) > > With Cisco 2500's going on Ebay for $10-$30, I'd like to find > something in > the <$50 price range that will do basic routing and has an > RJ45 connector > plus some serial way for me to hook the CSU/DSU in to it. > > Bonus abilities would be built in DHCP, NAT, 1-1 NAT mapping, port > mapping, and basic firewalling. > > Maybe I'm looking at this too hard. Is there a cheap Smart-Jack to > Ethernet conversion system out there I'm missing for small businesses? > > I know the hardware has been around for a while and the software I'm > looking for is not complicated. Maybe someone knows of a different OS > that'll go on the cheap cisco routers like: > http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/images/ > > ...only with a heartbeat. (That's not going to stop me from > downloading it > and trying it though.) > > Thanks for any suggestions on or off list. > > Gerald
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