One being the a certain Uni in WA, the other a Student accommodation complex on the Sunshine coast.
This involves me getting together, installing testing and configuring relevant embedded systems, which will be used in conjunction with our newly created Hotspot backend database/system to manage the internet accounts of an estimated 1000+ students in WA and 450ish on the coast.
Currently the WA site has free but very restricted access for students, while the sunshine coast site runs a currently non-working radius based system in which students pay through the nose for data.
As it stands we intend to install 2 x Eber 220 units (made by www.yawarra.com.au) at the WA site, and are looking at possibly using an Eber 230 unit for the sunshine coast property.
I say probably as I'm not entirely sure if our router software's (www.mikrotik.com) current version supports the Realtek Gigabit ethernet chipset that comes on the 230's.
Anyway.. pictures!
The first one here is of the system open, displaying all the guts and glory.
Some stats on the device:
Name: Eber 220
Board: Manufactured by Commell (www.commell.com.tw)
CPU: 533mhz VIA Eden CPU
Ram: 256mb (can be upgraded to 512mb, uses a small form stick as its fitted in a 1U case)
Ports:
- 3 x 10/100 Mbit Intel
- 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbit Intel
- Serial Port
- 2 x USB ports
- VGA out
- 2 x PS2 Inputs (Only accessible when the case is open) - for Keyboard and Mouse
- Floppy disk controller and connector
- IDE connector
- Secondry serial port connector
- Parallel port
Update: Yawarra has since made a small revision to the boards.. namely replacing the front pannel to disallow access to the 5v power connector.
This was an issue as it was exactly the same size as the rear connection, which takes the standard 12v. A client of ours managed to kill 2 boards because of this. (That and they removed the rubber bung from the front port.)
This is the new faceplate they sent us for the remaining working unit (previous has a hole in the left hand side) I also de-soldered the point so there's no point there at all now.I'm also currently investing the next model up, the Eber 230 which has a 1ghz cpu and runs 4 gigabit realtek LAN points. The investigation step is mainly checking with our yawarra contact if the current version of RouterOS will support the Realtek chipset.
And last but not least my re-designed version of the hotspot page for accessEzy.
2 comments:
Did the RoS recognize the Onboard 4 x Realtek RTL 8110S-32 Gigabit Ethernet controller of 1GHz Eber version?
If so which RoS version?
The first couple of versions didn't but we've been running v3.23 and onwards quite sucessfully on a couple of these now.
We've actually migrated over more to the RB1000 devices thou as they've been more readily available.
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