Re: project: wired/wireless router
Nick Lidakis wrote:
cables and antennas, would have been a big expense. It was much cheaper
to pick up a used Linksys WRT54G ($20 from Craigslist) and use it as a
Yup, going this way is going to be cheaper, no doubt. However, if the OP
goes the way he is thinking about (adding a multiport NIC and a wireless
bridge or an additional wireless card), that will be an excellent
learning experience. I have an old machine running as a router this way.
It has two NICs and a wireless PCI card working as an access point
(D-Link, can look up the model if anyone wants, but it is supported by
madwifi driver). One of the NICs is connected to my ADSL modem, the
other to a LAN switch. My wired LAN is 192.168.0.x, my wireless LAN is
192.168.5.0 and I have iptables running with my custom rules controlling
both the network with access the internet via the ppp0 connection made
through the ADSL modem.
Now, I also have the WRT-54GL which has been flashed with the open
source firmware.
I would say the consumer router choice (e.g. WRT-54G(L)) is the easiest
to implement. The other choice, making a computer as a router, is quite
involved but interesting (could be made very streamlined using a
firewall machine oriented Linux Distro) and serves as an excellent
learning project (networking and iptables). Moreover, with the latter
choice, one has very fine grained control over the routing and filtering
of network packets.
My 2 cents,
either way, Good luck to the OP!
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