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Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:43:57 -0500, Paul wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:37:00 -0500, Paul wrote:
You can buy single port routers, such as the BEFSR41 years ago.
It had one WAN port and one LAN port.
You're thinking of the BEFSR11 ;-)
The BEFSR41 had a WAN port and 4 LAN ports. (The clue is in the model
number, 11 versus 41.)
I used to own examples of both.
When I had the BEFSR11, I connected an Ethernet switch to the LAN port
so that I could connect all of the PCs. Actually, though the BEFSR11 and
41 are long gone, to this day I always connect an Ethernet switch to a
LAN port and all of the PCs connect to the switch. That way the LAN
stays up when the router has to be rebooted.
I was rebooting my router once or twice an evening.
Once of the finest electronics purchases I've ever made...
After a number of attempts to fix it by applying the
next release of firmware, it bricked. I expect that
was the only update that really "settled things".
It was stable after that (sitting in its cardboard box,
waiting for hell to freeze over).
I don't remember having any problems with any of my Linksys routers,
even the much-maligned WRT54G v5.
As you may know, most of this consumer-grade networking gear has a JTAG
header inside, so you can (almost always) recover from a brick.
I think the hardware was buggy on that thing, and no amount of
new firmware would ever fix it. It's fun to pretend though.
So when it bricked, that was a signal... "Hey, time's up" :-)
I wonder if anyone still uses one of those ? Smithsonian ?
I actually own a JTAG cable, but it's based on a parallel port
interface. The design was ancient, the day I bought it. There's
nothing in the room here now, with a parallel port... The board
that connected to, is retired (it's not even inside a computer case).
Paul
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