Motherboards, routerboards and SBCs

[Rich Simms]

I was reading about this in the LINUX Networking Cookbook by Carla Schroder.

You can purchase routerboards or single-board computers (SBCs) to make your own routers, firewalls and wireless access points just like many of you purchase a motherboard to make your own computers. You can use a compact flash card or micro drive for storage.

Coupled with Linux you can have a sophisticated router at home that has a small footprint and low power consumption.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2614444132.html
http://www.routerboard.com/products.html
http://soekris.com/products.htm
http://www.pcengines.ch/

This may be the next "computer"I build at home!

- Rich

[Jonathan Simms]

I too have thought that this would be a fun and exciting project. Thanks for posting these resources.

[Jonathan Simms]

Rich,

Here are some motherboards supposedly smaller than a stick of chewing gum!

http://www.gumstix.com/