Re: Linux on a Router

ArcticFox wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:20:09PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with DD-WRT is that as far as I can tell it only works on
>>> WRT-routers, I don't have one of those I can mess with. As far as I can
>>> tell, there isn't a Linux dest that will run on the router I do have.

That's not quite right, it runs on quite a wide variety of kit, including i386, some atheros stuff and most of the broadcom chips.

>> What about using an old computer?  If you need wireless then it has to
>> have the bus to take a wireless NIC but if its wired then almost any
>> computer will do.
>>
>> What is it you need your router to do?
>>

That depends on your network terminating device, if it's a USB, PCI, IR, serial, parallel or magic modem then no, if it's some sort of ethernet modem then yes, [0] but 100Mbps ethernet cards are so cheap now just buy another one, as long as you're internet connection doesn't exceed this speed, if it does I'm moving in and I'll bring a spare Gigabit network card with me.

[0] unless you start playing around with switches that support vlans

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