On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 08:27, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > If you don't mind netbooting, you can use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite for $99.
that's a pretty serious chicken and egg for me. my router is the machine that everything else netboots from... Anyway, another idea is this thing from newegg. I have one. It's not quite so industrial hardened as soekris, but also cheaper and more real PC like. If you happen to have all the needed barebones parts (who doesn't? :)), it's pretty cheap. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205007