Funding Global Domination Mk II "The Console"
roguemoko at roguewrt.org
roguemoko at roguewrt.org
Wed Dec 10 02:02:23 CET 2008
Stroller wrote:
> For me, personally, a fully open-source ADSL router would be more
> compelling. Whilst you can do just about anything you want with
> iptables, most of us need a separate ADSL box of some sort [1]. Given
> any arbitrary ADSL router I'm sure I could find something about it I
> don't quite like, for some certain obscure configuration. The Wanadoo
> Livebox has, for instance, a USB port, which would allow you to run a
> print server on it or BitTorrent to an external hard-drive (like the
> Asus WL-700gE). But you can't because it's bleedin' closed.
Out of curiosity, what's the main benefit in having a hackable ADSL
router? Outside of consolidating router and modem?
I've always bridged and considered an ADSL modem to be a transparent
device whilst using OpenWRT on routers to perform all required
networking and authentication. OpenWRT supports a lot of hardware, with
quite a few sporting USB. Webcams, printservers, fileservers (nfs or
external hdd) and a lot more is possible. There's even people using usb
modems controlled by the router (possibly 3G wirless or like but I
didn't read too deep).
Unless there is something at the lower level that can be altered ...
maybe to facilitate QOS and latency etc ... I can't see any benefit.
Now if Openmoko were to create an OpenWRT compatible router with stupid
amounts of storage space, awesome wireless range, a screaming CPU and
the ability to have persistent system time across reboots (syncing to
internal ntp for openvpn to even start is kinda annoying and external
syncing is not 100%)... I'd buy that :) ... currently consumer routers
(I use the Asus WL-500GP and WL-500W) are less than optimal, but do the
job. Potentially there could be some affiliation as I don't believe
there is any specific 'OpenWRT' router. Mmmmmm the OpenmokoWRT *drool*
Sarton
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