Wireless Routers for Linux?

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Apr 26 12:07:10 UTC 2006


On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> 
> Neil Cherry <ncherry at comcast.net> writes:
> > How about run a WAP with dynamic routing? There's OSPF, RIP and BGP.
> > I originally picked it up to do WDS. Looks like the older boxes can
> > handle WDS too (the BEFWS411).
> 
> I keep on hearing about folks wanting to run OSPF (etc) on the
> wireless side in order to set up an adaptive mesh network.
> Unfortunately when it comes to actually putting up a roof-antenna most
> people bail.

Wifidog is supposed to be good at this. Of course that does not solve
the roof antenna problem. :-)

> For me the biggest advantage of openwrt is that it is quite a bit more
> secure that the stock Linksys firmware.  One can turn off all plain
> ascii access to the box (no telnet, no www) and then run ssh in its
> strongest mode where one only allows RSA or DSA logins (with ascii
> passwords intentionally disabled).

+1

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com




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