In search of the perfect CPE.

01-04-2002

CPE = Customer Premise Equipment.

This device would be placed at a customer's location and provide a radio link to my AP. It would need to then be connected to a customer's network or computer.

What I would like to be able to do is to have this device mounted ouside as close to the antenna as possible. Power would be provided over the ethernet cable (PoE) and the same cable would make the network connection to the customer equipment.

I would like the device & OS to have: (no order)
1. Watchdog
2. CHEAP (8P
3. NAT
4. CBQ
5. VPN/IPSec (to secure CPE to AP links)
6. RADIUS support for billing/authorizing access/WEP session keys, etc)
7. PCMICA slot for Cisco LMC352 cards or Orinoco Gold cards.
8. Compact Flash (OS storage)
9. DHCP
10. telnet
11. web management for customer use (turn DHCP on/off, etc)
12. SNMP (remote diagnostics, management, etc.)
13. Enough speed
14. Console port
15. USB would be nice for adding "Extras" later.

Any thoughts people?!

Thanks,
Tron Of Borg

01-05-2002

Check this out:

http://nocat.net/

01-05-2002

but I still need the hardware.

Tron Of Borg

01-12-2002

Check out http://www.soekris.com/ or http://www.embsd.com/. emBSD.com simply resells the soekris boards with a trimmed version of OpenBSD. Soekris.com should have a new version comming out with dual pcmcia sockets, and 2 ethernet ports, one of which supports POE. Soekris also has another model with minipci and pci socket.

01-04-2002	#1 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	In search of the perfect CPE. CPE = Customer Premise Equipment. This device would be placed at a customer's location and provide a radio link to my AP. It would need to then be connected to a customer's network or computer. What I would like to be able to do is to have this device mounted ouside as close to the antenna as possible. Power would be provided over the ethernet cable (PoE) and the same cable would make the network connection to the customer equipment. I would like the device & OS to have: (no order) 1. Watchdog 2. CHEAP (8P 3. NAT 4. CBQ 5. VPN/IPSec (to secure CPE to AP links) 6. RADIUS support for billing/authorizing access/WEP session keys, etc) 7. PCMICA slot for Cisco LMC352 cards or Orinoco Gold cards. 8. Compact Flash (OS storage) 9. DHCP 10. telnet 11. web management for customer use (turn DHCP on/off, etc) 12. SNMP (remote diagnostics, management, etc.) 13. Enough speed 14. Console port 15. USB would be nice for adding "Extras" later. Any thoughts people?! Thanks, Tron Of Borg

01-05-2002	#2 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Linux Check this out: http://nocat.net/

01-05-2002	#3 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Thanks! Nice and Tight.... but I still need the hardware. Tron Of Borg

01-12-2002	#4 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	How about a nice SBC? Check out http://www.soekris.com/ or http://www.embsd.com/. emBSD.com simply resells the soekris boards with a trimmed version of OpenBSD. Soekris.com should have a new version comming out with dual pcmcia sockets, and 2 ethernet ports, one of which supports POE. Soekris also has another model with minipci and pci socket.

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