On board are 20 GPIOs, USB host, 16MB Flash, 64MB RAM, two Ethernet ports, on-board 802.11n and a USB host port.
I think they are referring more to the GPIOs [wikipedia.org] than ethernet or USB ports when saying "with a ton of I/O to connect to anything".
I'm curious what people would want to use these GPIOs for on a router... does anyone have any real-world projects where they use them? Not just "It would be cool if it it did X", but actual real-world projects.
I'd rather have more ethernet ports on a router so I don't have to VLAN my network.
Well, you wouldn't necessarily use 20 GPIOs on a router... but, then, this isn't a router, just a dev board based on a SoC commonly used in routers, running on a software stack also commonly used in routers.
The DPT board runs on a completely open stack and everything used by BH is open... so... it can. It doesn't yet, which is no surprise since the board is still under development and you're probably the only person that's voiced that request so far.
A ton of BS (Score:0)
What is this, 1992? I can buy a 16-port gigabit router on eBay for $50 and flash it with whatever WRT variant I want.
- ZOMG LEDs, it must be awesome
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On board are 20 GPIOs, USB host, 16MB Flash, 64MB RAM, two Ethernet ports, on-board 802.11n and a USB host port.
I think they are referring more to the GPIOs [wikipedia.org] than ethernet or USB ports when saying "with a ton of I/O to connect to anything".
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On board are 20 GPIOs, USB host, 16MB Flash, 64MB RAM, two Ethernet ports, on-board 802.11n and a USB host port.
I think they are referring more to the GPIOs [wikipedia.org] than ethernet or USB ports when saying "with a ton of I/O to connect to anything".
I'm curious what people would want to use these GPIOs for on a router... does anyone have any real-world projects where they use them? Not just "It would be cool if it it did X", but actual real-world projects.
I'd rather have more ethernet ports on a router so I don't have to VLAN my network.
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It would be nice if it could run Broadband-Hamnet...
Re:A ton of BS (Score:3)