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Linux Firmware For Some 802.11b Access Points

Posted by timothy on from the now-that-is-a-busybox dept.

drwho writes "This just unveiled at the BAWUG meeting tonight: Linux firmware for Access Points. Check this URL for more info. I haven't tried it yet but it looks great!" The upshot is that certain Access Points can be flashed with a stripped-down Linux system, which makes them more flexible than they'd be under the included firmware. There are even some screenshots of a modded access point booting up.

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  1. firewall replacement by 47PHA60 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One thing that irks me to no end is that my home firewall is a noisy old Pentium 200 with disks and fans. I've been looking into embedded systems to do this, and the current access points I've seen are not effective firewalls at all; no logging, and they don't _reall_ block everything, even though they say they do. A small Linux kernel which does not need to be built up with support for PCI, two ethernet cards, disks and multiple filesystems might just do the trick.

  2. Re:2.4.x by 1010011010 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another thought:

    IPSec on the access point. Screw WEP!

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  3. Re:2.4.x by louissypher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With the embedded processor that those access points have (16.4 BogoMips), forget IPSEC.

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