Looking for open-source home DSL gateway software & hardware to run it
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Posted by Al Dykes on November 1, 2007, 10:38 am
Please log in for more thread options I feel the need for a new home dsl router coming on and I'm looking for make and model sugggestions and ideas. Cheap is good but an old PC has a big electric bill and is otherwise uninteresting. I want an appliance. The box does NOT have to do WiFi. I want a router that I can put some open-source software into that gives me unix-ish network tools. The only open source I know of is DD-WRT and that seems to be a WiFi system. I've played with m0n0 and smoothwall and I would consider running either if a sub-$100 dollar box can be identified that they run on. I know that out-of-the box Linux can do this but I'd like to identify a distro that gets me runnig quickly and lets some community look for security problems and upgrades and can help, if needed. Suggestions? -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. A Proud signature since 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Doug McIntyre on November 1, 2007, 12:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options >Cheap is good but an old PC has a big electric bill and is otherwise
>uninteresting. I want an appliance. The box does NOT have to do WiFi. >I want a router that I can put some open-source software into that
>gives me unix-ish network tools. The only open source I know of is >DD-WRT and that seems to be a WiFi system. OpenWRT is the more general one. >I've played with m0n0 and smoothwall and I would consider running either
>if a sub-$100 dollar box can be identified that they run on. Sub-$100 means that you're going to be taking an off-the-shelf consumer device and retasking it with your own software. OpenWRT and its descendants will get you Linux running on an off-the-shelf router for the chipsets they support. Many of those boxes ran linux as it was anyway. Also, sub-$100 appliance form means that you have to make substantial cuts in hardware features, which means its not a PC any longer, which means you have to get specialized like OpenWRT. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Al Dykes on November 1, 2007, 12:19 pm
Please log in for more thread options >adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) writes:
>>I feel the need for a new home dsl router coming on and I'm looking
>>for make and model sugggestions and ideas. >
>>Cheap is good but an old PC has a big electric bill and is otherwise
>>uninteresting. I want an appliance. The box does NOT have to do WiFi. >
>>I want a router that I can put some open-source software into that
>>gives me unix-ish network tools. The only open source I know of is >>DD-WRT and that seems to be a WiFi system. >
>OpenWRT is the more general one. > TNX, that's new to me. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Doug McIntyre on November 1, 2007, 2:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) writes:
>>adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) writes:
>>>I feel the need for a new home dsl router coming on and I'm looking
>>>for make and model sugggestions and ideas. >>
>>>Cheap is good but an old PC has a big electric bill and is otherwise
>>>uninteresting. I want an appliance. The box does NOT have to do WiFi. >>
>>>I want a router that I can put some open-source software into that
>>>gives me unix-ish network tools. The only open source I know of is >>>DD-WRT and that seems to be a WiFi system. >>
>>OpenWRT is the more general one. >TNX, that's new to me.
There's lots of varients of both. The Wikipedia entries for both have lots of pointers off to various projects associated or not-so-associated with them. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Timothy Daniels on November 2, 2007, 1:36 pm
Please log in for more thread options "Al Dykes" wrote:
> I feel the need for a new home dsl router coming on...
Please excuse my ignorance (as I'm router-challenged). How does a DSL router differ from a cable router or a just plain ol' router? I presume that there will be a network interface ("modem") of sorts, and that from there to the various computers there will be Ethernet. So how does a DSL router differ from an Ethernet router? *TimDaniels* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>for make and model sugggestions and ideas.