Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

[julien at gormotte.info (Julien Gormotte)]

Le Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:59:46 -0800,
Roy <r.engehausen at gmail.com> a ?crit :

> I will second the WRT54GL with OpenWRT.

That's one possibility. Any router compatible with OpenWRT would do an
acceptable job.

Another possibility may be more interesting :

http://pcengines.ch/alix3d2.htm 

These ones are cheap (around 70 $ iirc), very low-consumption (around
5W), can use PoE, and you can put a lot of systems on it. From Debian
to FreeBSD, OpenBSD... And it is quite powerful, so easy to use for
something else (I use some as backup servers, with a USB disk, for very
cheap systems).