Cringely says: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html
"If you have a WRT54G, here's what you can use it for after less than an hour's work. You get all the original Linksys functions plus SSH, Wonder Shaper, L7 regexp iptables filtering, frottle, parprouted, the latest Busybox utilities, several custom modifications to DHCP and dnsmasq, a PPTP server, static DHCP address mapping, OSPF routing, external logging, as well as support for client, ad hoc, AP, and WDS wireless modes. If that last paragraph meant nothing at all to you, look at it this way: the WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware is all you need to become your cul de sac's wireless ISP. Going further, if a bunch of your friends in town had similarly configured WRT54Gs, they could seamlessly work together and put out of business your local telephone company." Huh! My main problem in the foreseeable future is overlapping independent access points. I think if people knew how to connect to a common node (Cornelia Street, etc.), they would. The problem I've seen is that while D-link will repeat for other d-links, no solution will repeat for another vendor. Could Linux enable a web of local access points using different hardware (Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc)? Is there a way in the software to two access points of different hardware to behave like family? Does this exist now? Rob BTW, m0n0wall (impossible-to-remember URL-- http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ ) turned out to be a very easy web-based router configuration tool and very Linksys-like. If you've used Linksys's utility, it's not a far jump to m0n0wall. I wonder if I could flash that onto my Linksys BEFWSR11. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
