I'm experimenting at home with hardware. I'm playing with low end T1
equipment at the moment. What is a low-cost router solution to hook to a
CSU/DSU? (where I don't have to pay a ridiculous $800+ IOS relicensing
fee preferably.)
With Cisco 2500's going on Ebay for $10-$30, I'd like to find something in
the <$50 price range that will do basic routing and has an RJ45 connector
plus some serial way for me to hook the CSU/DSU in to it.
Bonus abilities would be built in DHCP, NAT, 1-1 NAT mapping, port
mapping, and basic firewalling.
Maybe I'm looking at this too hard. Is there a cheap Smart-Jack to
Ethernet conversion system out there I'm missing for small businesses?
I know the hardware has been around for a while and the software I'm
looking for is not complicated. Maybe someone knows of a different OS
that'll go on the cheap cisco routers like: http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/images/
...only with a heartbeat. (That's not going to stop me from downloading it
and trying it though.)
Lucent Pipeline 130, Superpipe 95, or Superpipe 155.
Cheap, Reasonably reliable, no external CSU-DSU required.
Personally, I won't run Nat on them. It's been my
experience that 9 out of 10 will work fine with Nat, but 1
will have odd problems and require reboots.
Well 2 minutes on Froogle tell me your definition of cheap and mine don't
match. For the same price range I would get a netopia R4522 or 5300 which
will reliably do NAT and all.
With a little more research, I think I can better clarify that I'm looking
for just about any router (<$50-100) that has a HSSI port and an RJ45
port. For what I'm looking for at the moment (experimenting)
used/refurbished doesn't matter so long as it works.
You ever hit send and then wish you could chase after that E-mail with a
s/HSSI/v.35/ ?
I was wrongly using the term. HSSI apparently cisco claimed. I was just
looking for a router with a serial interface that will handle 1.5 Mb
traffic which I've been told fits v.35.