[FADCA] Quick switch solution?

[Chuck Hast]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 21:09, Jerald A. DeLong<kd4yal at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
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>>Jerry,
>>That looks like a real good solution, big thing is that a lot of
>>people want to add
>>all sort of stuff to the device in question, and as a step up, this
>>sort of falls in the
>>next slot, these things are dropping in price such that you can pick them
> up now
>>for less that $200. It is a lot easier to walk into [bigboxstore]
>>(fill in the name) and
>>purchase one of these things now than it is to find some of the
>>routers that we use
>>to load the new firmware into. And they have USB which will support
>>the low speed
>>packet access. I would like to take the time to see if I could get
>>FPAC on a router,
>>and use the serial port for the low speed packet side of it, the WiFi
>>for the IP access
>>and the wired ports for other links. But at the same time I know I can
>>take one of
>>these netbooks and put it all on there and have it running quite rapidly.
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>>Well better get back to making sure my inspection machines are working...
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> Chuck,
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> I am already working on getting Fpac working with embedded software
> (OpenWRT) that will
> work on a router and have made some progress. If you're interested email me
> direct and
> I would be glad to share my information and progress with you.
>
> I am testing my OpenWRT packages that I built on a x86 platform so one of
> these little notebooks
> would be great for building images and testing.
>
Oh neat! That would certainly make a nice switch. If you use the 6pac protocol
and TNC's that support it, you could use the serial port on some of the
routers as the low speed port. I know that the Linksys routers have a serial
port on the board it just has to be brought out to the outside world.

As far as using the netbooks, they make nice little machines for a lot of stuff,
lot easier to handle that this "desktop that thinks its a notebook, assigned
me by corporate.

-- 
Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."