Single board computers

RouterBoard

I currently am experimenting with a RouterBoard 532A (about $200 including a case and power supply).

Support for it in OpenWrt seems to be pretty good, they have the latest releases prebuilt for it. I used instructions in this page to get it loaded.

I installed KAMIKAZE (7.09)

Install took 10 minutes including opening up the case. OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Mikrotik/RB532

Support in dd-wrt is not good. There is an old beta.

CF layout

Kamikaze fits in a 16MB flash so any old CF card will do for booting.

Ethernet ports

There are three, the one to the left of the serial port is eth0 To the right are eth1 and eth2

By default in Kamikaze eth0 is in DHCP so it would make a good WAN port

MAC numbers

• eth0 00:0c:42:10:1c:6c
• eth1 00:0c:42:10:1c:6d
• eth2 00:0c:42:10:1c:6e

Manufacturers

PC Engines makes WRAP boards, $129

Soekris boards are also popular for WiFi projects.

RouterBoard 133 model is just $59

PepLink makes load balancers, WAPS, and a general purposes gateway router/switch box calld the Manga. See also "Debian in 3 watts". This shows how to set up a Manga to run Debian from a USB storage device.

Metrix Wireless development kits