[Battlemesh] The router of choice (advice & recommendation)

Huub Schuurmans huubsch at xs4all.nl
Thu Sep 11 11:03:31 CEST 2014


cmsv schreef op 10/09/14 14:21:
> Hello fellow nodes :)
> 
> As i am looking to have a standard dual band router for my layer2 mesh i
> find myself with too many choices and not knowing for sure all theirs
> prons and cons and based on your knowledge, experience and what you are
> using i would like some feedback and or advice in regards to a good
> choice based on a few requirements.
> 
> 

We (Wireless Leiden) use exclusively Alix-boards nowadays, which I can
recomment, but your requirements are a bit more modest.

We also have a big stock (some 40) of used Soekris4521 boards
(http://soekris.com/products/net4521-2.html) that we no longer use. They
run on openwrt and nanobsd (IA32 CPU). The good news is that they are
free for wireless communities, only shipping costs to be paid (from the
Netherlands).
You have to add wireless cards (either minipci or pcmcia) and a compact
flash card. This gives you a very flexible setup with three radios.

Kind regards
Huub

Specifications
•  100 or 133 Mhz AMD ElanSC520
•  16 to 64 Mbyte SDRAM, soldered on board
•  1 Mbit BIOS/BOOT Flash
•  CompactFLASH Type I/II socket
•  1 or 2 10/100 Mbit Ethernet ports, RJ-45
•  1 Serial port, DB9.
•  Power LED, Activity LED, Error LED
•  Mini-PCI type III socket. (t.ex for optional hardware encryption.)
•  2 PC-Card/Cardbus slots, for wireless adapters
•  8 bit general purpose I/O, 14 pins header
•  Hardware watchdog
•  Board size 9.2" x 5.7"
•  Power using external power supply is 11-56V DC, max 14 Watt
•  Option for 5V supply using internal connector
•  Supports Power over Ethernet according to the 802.3af standard
•  Operating temperature 0-60 °C


Software
•  comBIOS for full headless operation over serial port
•  PXE boot rom for diskless booting
•  Designed for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux
•  Runs most realtime operating systems





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