Router as embedded Linux?

[Mike McCarty]

Neil Cherry wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone considered using a cheap router as a cheap embedded
>> Linux machine? Or are the peripherals present just too skimpy?
> 
> 
> You mean like a Soerkis box? Or the WRT54G (a MIPS processor, I
> think). I had a working setup on a PC running at 333MHz, no hard
> drive, net booted, 64M RAM (only needed 12M).

Yes, that's the idea. I was wondering about tinkering around
with a router as an embedded machine. Some years ago, I fiddled
with a couple of machines which were originally modems, with
8031 processors in them. They made fine little embedded processors.
I used the LED ports (you know, the status LEDs like "high speed",
and "DTR" and "CTS" etc.) for my output bits, and the DIP switch
configuration I took out to a panel for input bits, and of course
it had RS232 built in.

I just wonder whether a router might not be usable as a cheapo
embedded system running Linux.

Mike
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