An alternate idea that plays into the other thread about 'how do you deploy this with existing infrastructure' - instead of replacing anything you supplement.
Simple passthrough device. Ethernet on both ends - no wifi. Plug in inline with whatever other device you have and it acts as a mostly transparent device Picture for example: http://www.superdroidrobots.com/images/TE-144-006.jpg Detect which side is pointed towards the internet and stand up the TOR, Pagekite, etc pointing out. The configuration site is pointed 'inward'. The social networks / chat / mail systems point both ways. Bonus points - wifi client mode. Double bonus - wifi AP Just ideas Brian Drake Austin Texas 512.850-6326 http://www.linkedin.com/in/brndrakeecoit Schedule a Meeting: http://tungle.me/briandrake On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Brian Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been of the opinion that we should reach out to one of these arm > manufacturers and have them do a custom box for us rather than trying to > adapt to the generic developer kits like the dreamplug and guruservers. > Let them sell it as a development kit if they want but we specify the > ports and specs on the board. > > This increases the per-box cost a bit but eliminates ports that would be > absolutely useless to us which could also save money. No need for audio, > HDMI etc. > > 4/5 (POE) network ports (standard router config) > 4? usb ports (charge point & wired data transfer for cell/mobile devices) > 1 SD slot > 2 Wifi antennas/ radios > JTAG > Battery built in for 'brownout' situations > > If the team can define the ports we want and come to an agreement I'd be > happy to have conversations with a few manufacturers about pricing/volume > sales. There is another thread regarding the chips and the ID's that are > stored and we could examine those as part of this kind of request. > > Brian Drake > Austin Texas > 512.850-6326 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/brndrakeecoit > Schedule a Meeting: http://tungle.me/briandrake > > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Sean Alexandre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:42:02 +0200 >> Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Or you could just put pfSense on ALIX. >> >> Yes, pfSense would be perfect...or a scaled down and simplified version >> of it. Although, it's FreeBSD versus Debian. >> >> I see Debian's been ported to ALIX: >> https://code.google.com/p/debian-for-alix/ >> >> I couldn't tell if there's a ALIX board with wireless, and non-binary >> drivers? >> >> I do see that the Dream Plug has wireless and two NICs: >> http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware >> >> The next version D2 Plug, though, only has one NIC. So it wouldn't >> make a very good home router since the one NIC would have to go to the >> WAN connection, and you wouldn't have one for local devices. >> >> I did a bit of research on OpenWRT types of devices, and whether Debian >> would run on them. It turns out it does, but with some problems. >> >> DebianWRT >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWRT >> >> Running Debian on ASUS WL-500G deluxe >> http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe >> >> The wireless driver is a binary kernel module (first problem), and it >> needs a 2.4 kernel (second problem.) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedombox-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >> > >
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