Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > On 3/25/07, David A. Long wrote: > > Has anyone looked into mini PCI (type III) crypto cards, or otherwise > > made modifications to the WRT54GL hardware? The radio hardware in the > > box is on its own removable mini PCI card and presumably could be > > replaced with a crypt

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 25, 2007, at 16:25, Ben Scott wrote: You'd have to find one of the old WRT54G v1 units to get a mPCI slot. I think. There are other brands that run the *WRT line. One that comes to mind is Asus's WL-500g, which has a Mini-PCI radio: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx? modelmen

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-25 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/25/07, David A. Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone looked into mini PCI (type III) crypto cards, or otherwise made modifications to the WRT54GL hardware? The radio hardware in the box is on its own removable mini PCI card and presumably could be replaced with a crypto card. Inter

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-25 Thread David A. Long
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 21:33 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Mar 12, 2007, at 16:28, Ben Scott wrote: > > There are some LinkSys bitty boxes which supposedly have crypto > > accelerators in them, and some of them are listed on the OpenWRT > > pages, but I don't know if the crypto hardware is suppor

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mar 12, 2007, at 16:28, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/12/07, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it made me cry, watching how pitiful the throughput was when using an ipsec vpn client running on the wrt. :) Ouch. Yah, it's like a 200 MHz CPU, and it's optimized for low-power, not perform

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > On 3/12/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> But would non-owners be getting bored with all this purple-and-black >> stuff? > > Tsk. They're clearly blue. ;-) > I was only allowed the 8 big fat crayons in school, so I don't know what you call it. I've referred the

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/12/07, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it made me cry, watching how pitiful the throughput was when using an ipsec vpn client running on the wrt. :) Ouch. Yah, it's like a 200 MHz CPU, and it's optimized for low-power, not performance. I'm surprised it's even usable. There

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Drew Van Zandt
tsk... obviously they're Linksys-colored. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > On 3/12/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> But would non-owners be getting bored with all this purple-and-black >> stuff? > > Tsk. They're clearly blue. ;-) > I was only allowed the 8 big fat crayons in school, so I don't know what you call it. I've referred the

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 12 March 2007 11:21:18 Ben Scott wrote: > On 3/12/07, Drew Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just wanted to change the *(@#$&^)%# subnet mask on the box to > > 255.255.0.0 instead of being limited to their list. > > 24 bits of netmask should be enough for anyone. ;-) > > > hyp

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I was far lazier than that - I put a line in my startup script doing an appropriate ifconfig. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:57 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > I just wanted to change the *(@#$&^)%# subnet mask on the box to > 255.255.0.0 instead of being limited to their list. If you feel like using ssh to connect to the box, I would expect nvram show | grep -i mask to show something li

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:19 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I was asked off-list about my experience with OpenWRT. I asked if > an on-list message was okay, and it was. So: > > I have a LinkSys WRT54G, Hardware Version 2, at home. As many know, > these boxes run Linux internall

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 12, 2007, at 08:44, Ted Roche wrote: I enjoyed Lloyd's talk about DD-WRT and the ethernet bridging he had done. IIRC Lloyd was also using OpenWRT. Sounds like we almost have enough topics for a WRT54G users group! Oh, no, not per-distro user groups! :) -Bill - Bill McGonigle,

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/12/07, Drew Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wanted to change the *(@#$&^)%# subnet mask on the box to 255.255.0.0 instead of being limited to their list. 24 bits of netmask should be enough for anyone. ;-) hyperWRT ... doesn't appear to have SNMP support ... I'd like t

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I just wanted to change the *(@#$&^)%# subnet mask on the box to 255.255.0.0 instead of being limited to their list. I'll be switching from hyperWRT soon, though, since it doesn't appear to have SNMP support and I'd like to monitor per-port bandwidth. I believe several of the others will do that

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On 3/12/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/12/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boy, that sounds like it could be a pretty good presentation. If people are interested, I would be happy to re-load the stock firmware and then demonstrate the process "live". (Yah, a live dem

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/12/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Boy, that sounds like it could be a pretty good presentation. If people are interested, I would be happy to re-load the stock firmware and then demonstrate the process "live". (Yah, a live demo -- I'm crazy that way.) But would non-owners be

Re: LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-12 Thread Ted Roche
On Mar 11, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Hi everybody! I was asked off-list about my experience with OpenWRT. I asked if an on-list message was okay, and it was. So: Boy, that sounds like it could be a pretty good presentation. I enjoyed Lloyd's talk about DD-WRT and the ethernet

LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

2007-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
Hi everybody! I was asked off-list about my experience with OpenWRT. I asked if an on-list message was okay, and it was. So: I have a LinkSys WRT54G, Hardware Version 2, at home. As many know, these boxes run Linux internally, and third-party firmware has been developed to greatly extend th