On 04/02/2008, Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > G'day Nutters, > > I've just started playing with DD-WRT, and I *love* it. > > Got a Linksys WAP54GL from Carrefour (~250Dhs) and a Buffalo WHS-G54s from > DG's (~249DHS). > > The Linksys sits under a desk on site and punches a hole through the > corporate firewall (shhhhhh!) > using OpenVPN to give me transparent access to my network at home, and the > Buffalo has been fitted > with a 1GB miniSD card to give it some local storage for me to play with. > > All in all great little fun linux machines to experiment with! Highly > recommended if you have some > $$ to play with and the desire to do something fun. With the SD/MMC mod > providing extra local > storage you can pretty much turn them into a fully fledged linux box with a > 200Mhz MIPS processor > and 16MB of Ram. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee > > Both boxes have a WAN port and a 4 port switch built in, and with the > linksys at least you can > re-assign the lan ports to different VLAN's for more flexibility (have not > tried with the Buffalo > yet), in addition to being able to run virtually separate wireless networks > in parallel over the > same radio. They work in client mode (hook into your neighbours WIFI, and > will also run most common > mesh software and WDS. > > Cheap fun with a bit of power and flexibility behind it. > > The SD mod is a little tricky if you are not a dab hand with a soldering > iron and a dremel, but not > terribly difficult to achieve. I finished the Buffalo router last night, but > the Linksys has been > running for a week now. > > Brad > --
Hey Brad, Sorry just now got around to taking a look at your post. Now this looks like a new fun project for me :) Honestly had never heard of DD-WRT till you posted. Have now googled it, found the official site and am much informed. I am required to do a security project for MSc, so I think this could be something I most definitely want to use. I can grab one of the compatible linksys wireless device off of newegg for about $70. is it still up and running ? any issues thusfar ? Dan Dan -- _____________________________________________________________ " They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
