So, for home networking, ultimately someone is better off with a commercial hardware router by virtue of efficient power consumption and firmware updates. Ah well, it then must be a labour of love.
From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LEAF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardwarerouter?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:00:17 -0500
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:11, joah moat wrote:
> I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and
> just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
Don't disagree with anything said previously, but there is at least one of these cheap hardware routers that is somewhat more flexable and you can get your hands on the source. The Linksys WRT54G (yea I know it's not $50, it's $85 and it's has 4 hardware ports + wireless) is Linux based and there is a site that is supplying a custom Linux image with IPSEC an more for it. The source for all of it is available. I have no idea what the through put is, but it does have _some_ of the flexablilty of LEAF and you can see what's in there. Check out http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/38267
Cokey
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