From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fep17.inet.fi (fep17.inet.fi [194.251.242.242]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3NIvLrU024872 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:57:21 GMT Received: from le.hopto.org ([80.221.15.233]) by fep17.inet.fi with ESMTP id <20050423185730.UMCO29816.fep17.inet.fi@le.hopto.org> for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:57:30 +0300 Received: (qmail 30895 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Apr 2005 21:57:30 +0300 Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:57:30 +0300 From: Eero =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lemmel=E4?= To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Embedded Linux on Linksys Blue Boxes Message-ID: <20050423185729.GA28049@digiboxi.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org References: <1114274566.13712.38.camel@mpascual.qsr.com.ph> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114274566.13712.38.camel@mpascual.qsr.com.ph> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 28fa78d2-0565-42b8-9a50-f44957bdba86 X-Archives-Hash: 7981d1d7984820f196b52d750a67f386 On 00:42 Sun 24 Apr, Linux GNUbie wrote: > Hello all, > > We're planning to deploy Linux based VPN client using IPSec on our > branches which will have a downstream/upstream of 256Kbps DSL > connection. Our VPN gateway which will be located in our main office > will run on an OpenS/WAN VPN implementation. My first question is, do > you guys think that the Linksys [1]BEFSR41 or the [2]WRT54G can cater > the said requirement? All of the VPN clients will have a single server > behind them and connected through a crossover cable only. The VPN > connection is actually dedicated to the server behind each VPN clients. > > My only concerns of the two said Linksys appliances when it comes to > their hardware specifications are: > > [a] 200Mhz processor > [b] 4MB flash drives > [c] 16MB RAM I have a Linksys WRT54G v2.2 running OpenWRT. If you haven't already checked it out, I think you should: http://openwrt.org/ I bought my unit at the time when v2.2 had just been published and wasn't officially supported by OpenWRT (still isn't). I played around with the unit quite a lot at the time and now it is pretty unstable (random reboots) under heavy load... BUT my friend has a similar unit and he hasn't had any problems with it. We both have a 10 Mbps downstream/upstream DSL, so my problems are propably due to my experiments. I'm pretty confident that you would be just fine. > My second question is, do you guys think that with the said hardware > specifications, it is possible to install Gentoo Linux in it? I think it could be possible, but what do I know: I'm a newbie with this sort of stuff. If someone has or is going to try to install Gentoo to Linksys WRT54G, I'm eager to contribute at least by testing! > Below are the tools that I need so far for the VPN client: > > [a] IPTables > [b] VPN client > [c] OpenSSH > [d] RP-PPPoE > [e] IPTraf > [f] nmap > [g] mtr There is a package tracker for OpenWRT: http://nthill.free.fr/openwrt/tracker/ Didn't find nmap nor mtr, but the rest are available. -- - Eero -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list