What James said, with the addendum that my venerable old WRT54G also runs OpenWRT quite nicely. But it's gone through a few hardware revisions since I bought mine, and from memory the newer ones might have issues.
It's probably worth checking the website before putting money in to it. -- Pete On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 13:21 +1000, James Polley wrote: > The WRT54G does support WPA. > > The WRT54GL (http://www.ht.com.au/N/0/keyword/wrt54gl/part/T6018/detail.hts) > will do everything you want, and also runs linux. If you feel like > getting your (virtual) hands dirty, there's a slew of distros for it - > http://openwrt.org, http://www.dd-wrt.com/, http://www.thibor.co.uk/, > etc. These can give you fantastic features, like being able to set up > a WDS, configuring multiple SSIDs, assigning all switch ports on > different vlans, etc. Also, because it's running nice stock linux > things, you can do stuff you'd do on any other linux firewall, like > ssh in and twiddle iptables rules. Of course, you've only got 16Mb ram > to play with, and the CPU is only 200Mhz... > > On 27/09/2007, Jesus Jr M Salvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have Optus cable at home, and have been simply plugging my laptop ( > > a Compaq Presario V6107AU ) running Fedora7 to the cable modem ( > > Motorola, forgot the exact model ) to get Internet access. > > > > Can anyone recommend a wireless router that I can use instead so that : > > 1) The wireless router connects to the cable modem. > > 2) The wireless router serves DHCP to wireless laptops. > > 3) Supports VPN passthrough > > 4) WEP / WPA-PSK / AES encyption > > 5) Allows a USB 2.0 printer to be connected so that it is shared among > > laptops ( optional ) > > > > ... and of course ... works with linux ? > > > > I have been looking at these: > > > > LinkSys WRT54GX: > > http://www.ht.com.au/N/-20+-43+-535/part/R8671/detail.hts > > > > LinkSys WRT54G: > > http://www.ht.com.au/N/-20+-43+-535/part/H9739/detail.hts > > > > The second one is cheaper, although it does not have WPA or AES. > > What do people here with Optus cable use ... and what's your feedback ? > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > > > -- > There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself > - Zhasper, 2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
