MazTaim's Journal: Something Smells Kinda...Dead...

Oh...my poor, poor Netopia router. How did I hate it. It is finally starting to show signs of giving up the good fight.

I would give anything to throw an old PC at our network to replace the old Netopia beast, but to be quite honest, I just don't have the time or devotion to finding out all the funky quirks necessary to get this card or that hard drive to play nicely with linux.

Time to look at something newer, faster, stronger...BETTER! One such possibility somehow managed to land in my trembling hands (that's just too much Coca-Cola).

http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm is the address. Check it out in all it's glory. Finally a machine that is just PERFECT for a router. It has exactly the correct amount of ports I would need. One for Wan, One for LAN and one for Wireless. I can drop as big of a flash card as I would need for a VERY basic install of linux. Perhaps I will look into Trinux or Embedded Linux.

Every now and then I like to stir things up on our home network. There is just something about leaving my roomate without wireless access for a day or two that makes a mans heart feel all warm and fuzzy :) Time to piss off the roomate....