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Embedded Linux VPN Router Near Release

Posted by simoniker on from the embed-this dept.

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."

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  1. RH8? by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 4, Informative
    Using a full blown RH 8 installations eems like an odd thing to do. Lots of people are using Soekris computers as routers, firewalls, access points, and VPNs, but they are generally run off stripped BSD or Linux installations with hardly any extraneous crap. Mine is running a very bare Debian installed into a 256MB compact flash.

    Soekris

  2. Not to be confused with... by ScottSpeaks! · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...the Linux Router Project, a floppy-based 386-compatible micro-distro which served as the basis for (among other things) Coyote Linux.

  3. Use a $80 wrt54g to do the same by Jim+Buzbee · · Score: 4, Informative

    Custom firmware for the wrt54g does/will do pretty much the same thing. Progress is very quick. See the forum here:

    sveasoft