On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 10:36 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Mark Komarinski > <mkomarin...@wayga.org> wrote: > I have two early WRT54G systems that work really nice. One > acts as both > router to the Internet and AP for access to my internal > network, the > other one for when visitors show up and/or have a 802.11b > device. > > I'm now looking to install OpenVPN with bridging so my wife > can fire up > a client on her netbook and get access to her files that are > on the home > server. From what I've seen, the older WRT54Gs don't have > enough memory > and/or CPU to handle doing that. > > The additional problem is that Tomato doesn't have OpenVPN on > it, so I > have to find another firmware. Tomato has a nice web-based > GUI that > makes it really easy to configure and get easy stats on. > > So here I am. Does anyone have this working now, and if so, > what > hardware/software combination are you using? > > -Mark > > I can think of some work arounds: > > 1) Run OpenVPN on the home server and redirect the ports on Tomato. > I'm not familiar enough with OpenVPN to know if this is possible. > > 2) Use SSH redirects to the server. I've seen this with batch scripts > on windows. On Linux, I've used SSHFS. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Take a look at DD-WRT[1]. I run v24-vpn on several Linksys 54GL's and have found that with DD-WRT the router preforms much better then Cisco's firmware. No more reboots, lockups, slowdowns, etc... As for VPN, I only have a single tunnel running between my home and office, but I have yet to notice any issues with throughput or crashes. Everything seems to be just fine with it. :] As for storage for larger images and files, there's at least one hack[2] to add a SD card to the WRT54GL. I have yet to add a SD card to one of mine, but as soon as I have an extra unit I can spare, I'm turning on the iron. HTH ~k [1] http://www.dd-wrt.com [2] http://www.powco.net/wrt/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
