Re: RFID for HA

[ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani)]

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