From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEF7138CA3 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:24:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0C2BE08FC; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A21EFE082F for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTGm7-00011T-A0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:24:15 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:24:15 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:24:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <0C1911BB-D14A-4030-84E9-BD9AB5E33087@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32.1) X-Archives-Salt: 3e85f2bc-9f04-4609-959f-8ea8a1244b42 X-Archives-Hash: 7501b025312838a2087b3b7d4192c0f1 Bruce Schultz gmail.com> writes: > > > On 5 March 2015 1:10:40 AM AEST, James tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >> I'd like to be able to download some open source linux to the router >> hardware if updates and pathces are not maintained by the vendor? >> That way I do not purchase something that is to be abandoned in >> a few years by the vendor. > Maybe this would meet your needs? > https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ > > There's also this link if you want to run gentoo, although you lose > the networking performance of the original firmware > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3 Now this is exactly what I'm looking for; a vendor light weight router and I can put linux on (preferable gentoo) in case the vendor does not offer updated images or stay up with patches and such. Very, Very cool! Do you own one? Have you or another tried it? Have you put gentoo on it? Do you know which dev rooted this hardware and/or wrote the howto web page you reference above? James