> I've been lurking here for a while. I currently have a linksys router > running dd-wrt. Although it's worked fine for me, I'm totally > intrigued with the idea of building low power wireless linux router > with the Soekris net4521. > > I ultimately would like to broadcast two networks, one secure internal > network and one public, but throttled, network. Both networks > wireless N (looking at the atheros cards).
Are you choosing the net4521 because it has two cardbus slots? If so, maybe you should know that it is possible to have two networks with just one wifi card. Search terms: "multiple bssid", "virtual bssid" Its possible you can already do it with your linksys router and dd-wrt, check this out: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3710791 Here are some other related links: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01347.html http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~isheriff/MADWiFi.pdf http://osdir.com/ml/linux-wireless/2009-08/msg00751.html So if it is not currently working, eventually it will be. Another issue would be 802.11N support, I'm not sure if this is working in Linux yet. I'm also interested in this, so please keep me posted if you find more information. > I'm thinking of going with debian however gentoo might be compelling > in terms having a smaller initial OS install (I could be wrong about > this since I haven't touched either of these distros in years). I'm > simply looking at this a personal project to improve my iptables and > dns knowledge. Some other options if you want a small distro: - OpenWRT (already tailored for this kind of thing) - CRUX (you will get your hands more dirty & learn more if you use this) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
