What about Linux on wired router appliances? [LWN.net]

What about Linux on wired router appliances?

Posted Aug 19, 2005 16:01 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
Parent article: Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

The need isn't urgent, yet, but I'm beginning to think about upgrading my
old Netgear rt314, 100Mbit Fast-Ethernet LAN side, but only 10Mbit, 10bT
Ethernet WAN side.

I'd need 100Mbit WAN side certainly, and would like dual WAN routing, tho
it's not mandatory. Wireless is NOT needed nor preferred, altho I suppose
if necessary I could buy a wireless router and simply disable wireless
functionality. Any hardware meeting these requirements that also supports
freedomware firmware?

Duncan

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What about Linux on wired router appliances?

Posted Aug 20, 2005 11:24 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

LOL. Few facts:

Linksys WRT54G has everything needed in hardware.
It's firware does not have the necessary capability.
With OpenWrt you have more-or-less general-purpose Linux box and Linux certainly can everything you want.

In short: Linksys WRT54G can do everything you need but only after special tweaking. How painfull it'll be depends from your familiarity with Linux's networking...