PC Routers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:54:41PM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
> My suggestion would be to get a commercial router that can be
> re-flashed with OpenWRT and/or Tomato Linux (I am rather partial to
> the Linksys WRT54GL type routers, but there are others). This means
> you have Linux level security, along with small footprint, and low
> power consumption. Best of all worlds. If you don't need wireless that
> can be turned off via the configuration menus and/or files (and for
> the truly paranoid you can remove the antennas...).

WRT54GL specificaly is ancient, slow, resource limited, broadcom based
(a rather bad thing for wifi drivers in general), and runs rather hot.

Really, what's to like?

One of the Atheros MIPS24k based with 64MB ram on the other hand and
USB2 and such is way more interesting.

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Len Sorensen
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