Wireless Routers for Linux?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Temlakos wrote:

> 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.

No, according to them, the cheaper bill of materials justifies the vxworks 
liscense. The one that continues to have 16MB of ram/4MB flash is about 
$20 more.

> 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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