Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages
Roy
r.engehausen at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 16:59:46 UTC 2011
I will second the WRT54GL with OpenWRT. I have a number of them
deployed. I run an OpenVPN tunnel from the WRT54GL to a Linux server
at our shop so I can remotely log into the box and carry out any tests
or changes needed.
On 11/17/2011 6:21 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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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