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Turning The SEGA Dreamcast Into A Linux Router

Posted by timothy on from the plastic-and-silicon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This highly detailed 101-page how-to article provides the necessary background and procedures to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities. The article explains how to create the necessary toolchain for compiling both programs and the Linux kernel, and shows how, starting from scratch, you can build a Linux operating system that runs entirely in memory."

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  1. Broadband Adapter by Samus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have an old dreamcast laying around that I would love to do some of these things with but I lack the broadband adapter. I suspect many people out there are in the same boat. Is there some other hack out there that slaps a network card onto this thing or am I just out of luck?

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    1. Re:Broadband Adapter by Alizarin+Erythrosin · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I think that was the adapter's given name. It was just essentially one of those plug in thingies to replace the modem to allow the Dreamcast to hook into ethernet.

      Too bad they're so freaking expensive.

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