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What about Linux on wired router appliances?

What about Linux on wired router appliances?

Posted Aug 20, 2005 11:24 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: What about Linux on wired router appliances? by Duncan
Parent article: Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

LOL. Few facts:

  1. Linksys WRT54G has everything needed in hardware.
  2. It's firware does not have the necessary capability.
  3. 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...

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