On 17 Nov 2011, at 12:58, 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.
Have a look at the Atlas project from RIPE - http://atlas.ripe.net/ Their hardware is aimed at costing 50€ including distribution etc. They have said they were not going to make it available but they might collaborate ? HTH f
