It is my understanding that the newer versions of Karlnet updated the flash
on the Orinoco cards to the preferred level during boot.
I believe the hardware is all the same on the silver cards, old or new. We
are really just talking about processing power to handle the polling
efficiently.
-bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jayson Baker" <jbaker@peakinet.net>
To: "'Karlnet Mailing List'" <karlnet@wispnotes.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:16 AM
Subject: RE: [Karlnet] KN-200 better than
AP-1000?WASFlashromhardware?Howabout a Routerboard 230?
> Oh yeah, I remember the days of Boot ROM.
> But if Karlnet is booting on an Ethernet interface - this doesn't do me
much
> good getting it into a Silver card, does it?
>
> Regards,
> Jayson A. Baker
> Peak Internet Solutions
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com [mailto:karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com]
> On Behalf Of Bob Hrbek
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:15 AM
> To: Karlnet Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Karlnet] KN-200 better than AP-1000?
> WASFlashromhardware?Howabout a Routerboard 230?
>
> NO, flashrom is not CF flash. It is a PC setup with an ethernet card and
a
> FLASHROM plugged into it that has the boot code on it. You've probably
> never even paid attention to many of the older ethernet cards with the
black
> rom plugs on them.
>
> The rom holds the boot code, in this case Karlnet. You plug the boot rom
> enabled ethernet card and that becomes the fixed boot disk.
>
> -bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jayson Baker" <jbaker@peakinet.net>
> To: "'Karlnet Mailing List'" <karlnet@wispnotes.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:11 AM
> Subject: RE: [Karlnet] KN-200 better than AP-1000? WAS
> Flashromhardware?Howabout a Routerboard 230?
>
>
> > "stable flashrom setup"
> >
> > What, exactly, does that mean?
> >
> > The KN boards have flash slots - what would someone use that for?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jayson A. Baker
> > Peak Internet Solutions
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com
[mailto:karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com]
> > On Behalf Of Bob Hrbek
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:10 AM
> > To: Karlnet Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Karlnet] KN-200 better than AP-1000? WAS Flashrom
> > hardware?Howabout a Routerboard 230?
> >
> > Yeah, the KN-200 is better, but maybe you should just skip the kn-200
step
> > altogether if you can find a stable Flashrom setup.
> >
> > I saw a huge performance increase with the upgrade.
> >
> > -bob
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jayson Baker" <jbaker@peakinet.net>
> > To: "'Karlnet Mailing List'" <karlnet@wispnotes.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:07 AM
> > Subject: RE: [Karlnet] KN-200 better than AP-1000? WAS Flashrom
> hardware?How
> > about a Routerboard 230?
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The KN-200 is better than an AP-1000/WavePoint-II?
> > > We currently have a WavePoint-II w/ ISP Base software at one of our
> > > (actually, our only) Turbocell site. It has about 30 satellites on it
> > right
> > > now (KN-100's).
> > >
> > > Latency is always all over the place... is this not because of the
> > > super-packet aggregation (or whatever it's called)? Should we upgrade
> > that
> > > WPII to a KN-200?
> > >
> > > Will we get better throughput and lower latency, or is it not worth
the
> > 2hr
> > > drive up a very rocky mountain to change out the unit? We're also
> running
> > > an older Lucent Silver card - should this be upgraded?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jayson A. Baker
> > > Peak Internet Solutions
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com
> [mailto:karlnet-bounces@WISPNotes.com]
> > > On Behalf Of Bob Hrbek
> > > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:02 AM
> > > To: Karlnet Mailing List
> > > Subject: [Karlnet] Flashrom hardware? How about a Routerboard 230?
> > >
> > > I need a flashrom setup to handle a growing cell site. I have about
50
> > > clients on a KN-200 board ( at least I think it is...it's the one with
> two
> > > PCMCIA interfaces). We upgraded from and AP-1000 when performance
was
> > > getting poor and it was NIGHT and day difference on ping times/latency
> and
> > > user perception of performance.
> > >
> > > Well, ping times are getting high again and I was considering
replacing
> > the
> > > KN-200 w/ some sort of a flashrom box. I want something small (a
> little
> > > larger than an AP-1000 would be ok but not much more. I just don't
have
> > > room for it.
> > >
> > > Will the karlnet flashrom setup run on a routerboard 230 from
Mikrotik?
> > >
> > > It's a 266Mhz setup and outdoor rated w/ a PCI slot and 2 PCMCIA
slots,
> I
> > > believe. Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bob
> > >
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