Stroller wrote: > For me, personally, a fully open-source ADSL router would be more > compelling. Whilst you can do just about anything you want with > iptables, most of us need a separate ADSL box of some sort [1]. Given > any arbitrary ADSL router I'm sure I could find something about it I > don't quite like, for some certain obscure configuration. The Wanadoo > Livebox has, for instance, a USB port, which would allow you to run a > print server on it or BitTorrent to an external hard-drive (like the > Asus WL-700gE). But you can't because it's bleedin' closed.
Out of curiosity, what's the main benefit in having a hackable ADSL router? Outside of consolidating router and modem? I've always bridged and considered an ADSL modem to be a transparent device whilst using OpenWRT on routers to perform all required networking and authentication. OpenWRT supports a lot of hardware, with quite a few sporting USB. Webcams, printservers, fileservers (nfs or external hdd) and a lot more is possible. There's even people using usb modems controlled by the router (possibly 3G wirless or like but I didn't read too deep). Unless there is something at the lower level that can be altered ... maybe to facilitate QOS and latency etc ... I can't see any benefit. Now if Openmoko were to create an OpenWRT compatible router with stupid amounts of storage space, awesome wireless range, a screaming CPU and the ability to have persistent system time across reboots (syncing to internal ntp for openvpn to even start is kinda annoying and external syncing is not 100%)... I'd buy that :) ... currently consumer routers (I use the Asus WL-500GP and WL-500W) are less than optimal, but do the job. Potentially there could be some affiliation as I don't believe there is any specific 'OpenWRT' router. Mmmmmm the OpenmokoWRT *drool* Sarton _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
