Wireless Routers for Linux?
Temlakos
temlakos at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 20:56:19 UTC 2006
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:07:21PM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 21:19 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Linksys hardware is ok. Just don't use Linksys firmware.
>>
>>Where else would you get firmware besides Linksys? Never new anything
>>outside Linksys existed until now.
>
>
> Linksys got caught violating GPL, and were forced to post sources.
> Multiple forks sprang up, with literally dozens of alternative
> firmware sources available.
>
> I'm recommending OpenWRT, but there are several more suitable (coming
> with a rich GUI):
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G
>
>
>
Maybe that explains why Linksys issued "Version Five" of their router,
with only half the RAM and EEPROM, and a proprietary "operating system."
But I digress.
I'm more interested in what one can do with OpenWRT or another
Linux-embed OS for router boxes, that one cannot do with the
factory-default OS. I've heard that one can establish VPN's with a
minimum of fuss. True? And if so, how?
Temlakos
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