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Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G

Posted by timothy on from the why-yes-it-does-run-linux dept.

scubacuda writes "Here is a tiny Linux distro for the Linksys wrt54g (d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc." Interesting -- "The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it."

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  1. telnetd? by Herrieman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not SSHD? Nobody in his right mind uses telnet nowadays.

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  2. Would this work with other Linksys routers? by cryptochrome · · Score: 5, Interesting

    None of them support Rendezous (AKA zeroconf), at least not on the level of Apple's airport base stations. That's a hack I'd really like to see.

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  3. ssh tunneling? by JanneM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Could this be used to establish ssh tunneling from clients to the AP? That would, in my eyes, be far preferable to the somewhat lacking link security that 802.11 offers today.

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  4. Re:That's cool. by FreeLinux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Snort logs will be written to /var/log/snort

    Ramdisk based snort logs aren't too enticing to me.

    Another HTTP server on 8000 doesn't do anything for me either, especially when the one on port 80 is already like molases running up hill in winter.

    The fact is that this might be useful in troubleshootingsomething on the router but, for production use it isn't terribly practical. But, then again who's going to rely on this router for any real production use. This is after all, a home or small office device.