Re: RFID for HA

[Marc F Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Apr 2006 19:57:35 GMT, ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote in message
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>In article <ce4a42dp7h3cpl42d9gj4ohr57tqmkgrol@xxxxxxx>,
MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Marc F Hult) writes:
>
>| The price of WIFI routers has dropped below $50.
>|
>| Linksys open sourced the WRT54G Linux firmware in July 2003.
>|
>| http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7322
>| http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391
>|
>| They boot in a few seconds.
>
>Do you happen to know more specifically how long it takes from power
>up to association complete?  (The Aironet BSE34x takes around 20
>seconds which by weird coincidence is also how long the T1910 takes
>using DOS and my stack.)
>
>| All one would actually need is a 555 IC (or other timer) that would wait
x
>| minutes to power up any detectable characteristic of the router to
>| distinguish between coming and going.
>
>Doesn't the WRT54G have an SNMP agent with an uptime counter?
>
>				Dan Lanciani
>				ddl@danlan.*com

Dan,