Re: Low Power Hardware for a Linux Based Router / Firewall

On Mar 15, 10:30 am, linuxlover992...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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So far, I managed to find a very nice candidate: the Linksys WRT54G
(and its variants):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G

However, despite the wealth of information in the above Wikipedia
article, it is unclear to me whether this cute little box can provide
me enough flexibility and power to run iptables, provide adequate
logging, provide DNS caching and NTP service and support VPN. Also, it
would be great if my "hardware of choice" could have an RS-232 for
connecting to a modem as a backup connection.

I love OpenWRT Linux on my Linksys wrt54G, whick I bought used for
about 30 dollars. There is no fan. it's silent and low power. I use it
like a bridge to do WDS and cron/WOL for waking up another box. I know
IPTables runs on it, but I do knot know about VPN. I think it's worth
playing with even if it is not your final solution.

links: OpenVPN on OpenWRT: http://martybugs.net/wireless/openwrt/openvpn.cgi
OpenWrt docs: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs

I just saw this, however on Linux Devices, for $70, might be another
capable device:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2837651365.html

it has a serial port, two ethernet ports, but it's not clear what
packages are already running on it.

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