OT: sharing Rogers

[Tim Writer]

Henry Spencer <henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, John Macdonald wrote:
> > Using a cheap Linux box as a router made sense 7 or 8 years ago
> > - I had a 486 doing that job for many years - but nowadays it
> > isn't worth the bother.
> 
> Unless, of course, you're not sure you can trust the cheap-router vendor.
> There have been some unpleasant bugs in some of those boxes.
> 
>                                                           Henry Spencer
>                                                        henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

If you buy something like the Linksys WRT54GS and replace the stock firmware
with something like OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org/), you get the benefits
of both worlds, i.e. cheap (~ $100), small, low power hardware running a
Linux distribution giving you complete control.

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