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Embedded Linux VPN Router Near Release
An anonymous reader writes "A new open source project aims to build a VPN router that supports all major routing protocols on a standardized hardware platform running embedded Linux. The "Linux Router Project - LR101" started in mid-2003 and plans a first release in January 2004. It is based on a dual-NIC VIA EPIA mainboard and a Travla case, along with Red Hat 8, zebra, FreeS/WAN, IP-tables, an other open source software, all compiled from source."
all compiled from source.
As opposed to say, a Linksys Router, which we all know is compiled from Cheerios. =)
Do you Gentoo!?
The only market for this is some screwed up and corrupted country like Argentina or Nigeria, where they would get the software for free, use it in the government
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In Nigeria, the government official in charge of IT is waiting for you to help him unlock those $20M from that deceased german businessman, in order to have funds to buy routers
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I want a router where all the binaries were hand assembled, myself.
If you had read the article, you'd have seen that they are using 32MB CF. Do you really think they're running "a full blown RH 8 [sic] installations"?
Please check one:
[ ] I can't read
[ ] I choose not to read
[ ] I read the article, but I think that a full install of RedHat fits in 32MB
[ ] Please forgive my Debian zealotry
I tried to check number one and now I've got a black mark on my monitor! This is all your fault you insensitive clod!
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