Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 11/19/11 01:35 , Fearghas McKay wrote:
> 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

http://ubnt.com/rspro

is a board I've run openwrt on with a great deal of success.

it's powerful enough to host rather a lot of things compared to a basic ap.

>       f