On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 07:53:32PM +1000, Kevin wrote:
From my experiance with the srw stuff it's not that the system is incapable of serving that many connections it's just that the software is absolutely shit.the srw2048 is not something you could replace with an eepc or simliar it's a layer 2 48 port switch that is fairly cheap
sorry, my mistake. i assumed he was talking about one of the linksys WRT type devices.
are there any alternative linux firmware replacements for it?
I doubt it. I'm pretty sure I grepped the firmware once upon a time and it didn't seem to have any Linux cruft in there (and Linksys are good about disclosure these days) so it's probably an exclusively proprietry platform. An open interface to a switch would be pretty cool, but most of the magic happens in hardware these days, which is why you can get a 200Mhz CPU on a 10GBit switch, so it would simply be management stuff. James