From: Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:15:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531121558.GR20163@ns1.bonedaddy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE406CF.8070409@libertytrek.org>
* Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> [110530 16:40]:
> On 2011-05-28 8:42 PM, Gregory Shearman wrote:
> > In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
> >> * Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> [110528 12:43]:
> >>> Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers
> >>> support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, Tomato, DD-WRT
> >>> or OpenWRT)?
> >>>
> >>> Looking forward to any suggestions/ideas...
> >>
> >> Hi, I'm pretty sure OpenWRT supports VLANs.
> >>
> >> I started using it on a Buffalo WHR-G300N (I think, not at home to check
> >> right now.) Cheap and I didn't expect much but it works great (far
> >> better than any Linksys or trendnet products I've purchased and run
> >> their firmware on.)
> >
> > I'll second that. I run a Buffalo Nfiniti WZR-HP-G300NH with openwrt
> > installed. It is VLAN capable and has Gigabyte ethernet and b/g/n wifi.
> > It also has a USB socket for extra disk storage if needed (or any other
> > peripheral you fancy). It just sits in the corner and does its job. It
> > is also very cheap.
>
> Thanks for the reco guys... will probably go with it...
>
> Is the VLAN configurable via the GUI? Or is it commandline only? I'm not
> exactly a whiz with this stuff...
>
> Also, any pointers to OpenWRT docs that cover creating VLANs? I
> obviously want to make sure I do it right... I'd hate to *think* I was
> secure and then find out the hard way I goofed when setting it up... ;)
I'm not at home and haven't used VLANs on it but I'm pretty sure it
supports GUI config of VLANs.
I've found the GUI to be very well done once I got used to the navigation
(which was counterintuitive at first to me, but then so are some
commercial GUIs too.)
Todd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 12:47 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <gXvl8-2i1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gXA1r-1NF-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-05-29 0:42 ` [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support Gregory Shearman
2011-05-30 14:33 ` Todd Goodman
2011-05-30 21:06 ` Tanstaafl
2011-05-31 12:15 ` Todd Goodman [this message]
2011-05-28 17:10 Tanstaafl
2011-05-28 21:38 ` Todd Goodman
2011-05-29 0:43 ` William Kenworthy
2011-05-29 1:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-29 9:08 ` Mick
2011-05-29 12:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-30 21:06 ` Tanstaafl
2011-05-31 4:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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