Did anyone see the article? It''s the first time I really noticed that these little Linksys routers are such a fully fledged linux machine with a decent processor and a replacable firmware. I am now itching to get one to replace the multipurpose firewall desktop machine. Has anyone experimented with the current state of the firmware and how advanced you can get with tc rules? For example is any of the l7 stuff incorporated yet? A 200Mhz processor and 8-32Mb ram seems butch enough for many small home and office firewall machines... Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
Hi there, I do have one of the WRT54Gs and did contribute some scripts to James, the head developer of the sveasoft firmware. I do not have the most recent firmware since I had a few issues "subscribing" to the development process but I still am thinking about getting more involved. The web admin interface on the version of the firmware that I''m using offers very little in the way of customizing the tc rules. However, all you need to do to make them as granular as you want is to enable SSH, ssh in and just copy/paste your script in. The firmware overall works great though with my v1 router the processor gets maxxed out very quickly if you are transferring files over the PPTP vpn. I know that better access to the bandwidth management from the web interface is on the development list. Last I heard/read they are incorporating both the l7 filters and the p2p wall projects. It''s an awesome product for ~6W of power and $70. There are 3 versions now, v1, v2, and the WRT54GS. I believe the v2 has more flash and/or RAM, the S model has the turbo mode for "108Mbps" performance. V1 and v2 have slightly different vlan/bridging setups between the wired and wireless. Patrick -----Original Message----- From: lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl [mailto:lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl] On Behalf Of Ed Wildgoose Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:26 AM To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: [LARTC] Slashdot on WRT54G Did anyone see the article? It''s the first time I really noticed that these little Linksys routers are such a fully fledged linux machine with a decent processor and a replacable firmware. I am now itching to get one to replace the multipurpose firewall desktop machine. Has anyone experimented with the current state of the firmware and how advanced you can get with tc rules? For example is any of the l7 stuff incorporated yet? A 200Mhz processor and 8-32Mb ram seems butch enough for many small home and office firewall machines... Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
>I do have one of the WRT54Gs and did contribute some scripts to James, >the head developer of the sveasoft firmware. I do not have the most >recent firmware since I had a few issues "subscribing" to the >development process but I still am thinking about getting more involved. > >The web admin interface on the version of the firmware that I''m using >offers very little in the way of customizing the tc rules. >It sounds excellent. The web interface is not interesting at all, ssh is the only way I intend to access it anyway. Having l7 compiled in, but at least traffic control, sounds absolutely excellent. If you can get it to run a vpn, then this is just superb I assume you have a US model? Can you tell me what sort of power supply it has? I am thinking about getting one imported to the UK since they don''t sell them here (and will probably be overpriced when they arrive). Will a universal power adaptor work? Also, any other issues with a uk ADSL line that might prevent this working...? Thanks Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
The power supply is the standard Linksys unit. I can read off the exact output of my adapter later if you want. The linksys specs say that the power is 12V DC, 1A so that shouldn''t be a problem at all. I have read of people powering one off their car battery without much difficulty. A picture of the power adapter can be found here: http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=33-124-010-02.JPG/33-124-0 10-04.JPG/33-124-010-03.JPG/33-124-010-06.JPG I do have a US model but as long as your DSL modem has an RJ-45 ethernet port on it you should have no problems. The only issue I can imagine could be the MTU settings since here in the US some DSL lines have an mtu of 1492 rather than the standard 1500 but that would be easily configurable in linux if need be. Patrick -----Original Message----- From: lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl [mailto:lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl] On Behalf Of Ed Wildgoose Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:14 AM To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: [LARTC] Slashdot on WRT54G>I do have one of the WRT54Gs and did contribute some scripts to James, >the head developer of the sveasoft firmware. I do not have the most >recent firmware since I had a few issues "subscribing" to the >development process but I still am thinking about getting moreinvolved.> >The web admin interface on the version of the firmware that I''m using >offers very little in the way of customizing the tc rules. >It sounds excellent. The web interface is not interesting at all, ssh is the only way I intend to access it anyway. Having l7 compiled in, but at least traffic control, sounds absolutely excellent. If you can get it to run a vpn, then this is just superb I assume you have a US model? Can you tell me what sort of power supply it has? I am thinking about getting one imported to the UK since they don''t sell them here (and will probably be overpriced when they arrive). Will a universal power adaptor work? Also, any other issues with a uk ADSL line that might prevent this working...? Thanks Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:14:11 +0100 From: Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com>>Also, any other issues >with a uk ADSL line that might prevent this working...?If your provider is using PPPoA instead of PPPoE then you might have some problems. I''m not sure if the Linksys unit in default config handles PPPoA. The only reason I mention this is because I know that BT uses PPPoA. James>Thanks>Ed W--__--__ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
james jones wrote:>Message: 6 >Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:14:11 +0100 >From: Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com> > > > >>Also, any other issues >>with a uk ADSL line that might prevent this working...? >> >> >If your provider is using PPPoA instead of PPPoE then you might have >some problems. I''m not sure if the Linksys unit in default config >handles PPPoA. The only reason I mention this is because I know that >BT uses PPPoA. > >Actually I asked what I thought was a silly question because I had naively thought that the WRT54G was also an adsl modem. Having read the specs it appears just to be a wireless accesspoint with some firewall ability. So I guess I''m curious how BT''s choice of PPoA would affect things? For sure their MTU is 1492 instead of 1500 (although I read they wanted to change that...). But I would have expected pretty much everything else to be transparent apart from the abilities of accurately guaging speed with tc rules..? Thanks for any insight Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/