[Novalug] small home based switches/routers

[Matt Bidwell]

Jay Hart wrote:
>> Jay Hart wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jay Hart
>>>>>
>>>> For what it's worth I've tried the NSLU2 and ultimately was
>>>> not happy with it.  But I'm willing to answer any questions
>>>> I can about it.  I think one of the "routers" that take
>>>> the openwrt or the other os whose names escapes me right now
>>>> would be a better option.  Would the apcupsd be networked or
>>>> are you looking for something with a USB/serial port?
>>>>
>>> Ahhh, you asked the right question.  The switch or router device I am
>>> looking
>>> for would have a either a USB or serial port for interfaceing with the UPS.
>>> That way you could have it be the APCUPSD server for shutting down all other
>>> computers.  dd-wrt wouldn't work. Not sure about operwrt, but the device
>>> can't
>>> have a firmware image, IMHO, it needs a little more flexibility.
>>>
>>> Maybe I should see what DamnSmallLinux runs on?
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>>> Matt
>> Asus WL-500G and the Asus WL-500G deluxe seem to support usb, and
>> openwrt seems to support it using ipkg.
>> (http://wiki.openwrt.org/UsbStorageHowto talks about usb storage
>> so it's a start)  So it seems possible to do it through openwrt,
>> and it even seems as if people have done it before
>> (https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2157 references apcupsd in packaged
>> form already.)  It seems like it could work, but further research
>> is probably needed.  What's the issue with firmware images?  Is it
>> something external storage would fix?
>>
>> Matt
>>
> 
> Thanks Matt, I'll look into this.
> 
> Since apcupsd is a "package" if you had a device that was firmware image
> based.(ie could only provide capability built into the firmware), it would be
> hard to add the files necessary to run apcupsd.
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
I'm not sure if you are talking about something different, but openwrt
provides a writable file system.  It's not ext3 but it's still writable
so you can modify /etc. And it has a very "apt" like packaging systeme
called ipkg.

Matt