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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. Clarification needed. by Mourgos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this a stripped down Redhat distro, with a configuration tool that they wrote? Isn't a whole distribution a little bit too much for such a project? Wouldn't a linuxfromscratch installation - with only the bare minimums - be a better idea? Just a thought.

    1. Re:Clarification needed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Is this a stripped down Redhat distro, with a configuration tool that they wrote? Isn't a whole distribution a little bit too much for such a project?

      Too me, stripped down implies it isn't whole anymore.

  2. Isn't it missing something? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where's PPTP? for a VPN router, it's kind of desirable ...

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  3. Why not a WRV54G? by greygent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, just buy a Linux-based Linksys WRV54G for well under $200 with most, if not all the features of this project. No, I don't mean the WRT54g, I mean the WRV54G. Excellent piece of gear, VPN, firewalling, dmz, wireless (wep/wpa), snmp, yadda yadda.

  4. Re:Warning ! by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If that's true, then it's illegal for a US citizen to contribute to the 2.6.0 kernel too, since that has crypto in it.

  5. Re:Warning ! by BdosError · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Crypto export laws were relexed a long time ago (during the Clinton administration).

    Just goes to support what I've observed about people who claim Mensa membership.

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  6. Re:PPTP is UNdesirable by jbr439 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about if I want to use my home linux box to access my employer's Microsoft based network?

    Do I downgrade my home box to Windows? Ans: when hell freezes over.

    Do I get my employer to use IPSEC? Ans: not if my employer is an "all microsoft, all the time" kind of place. [although with MS supporting IPSEC in some form, that is changing]

    In other words, contrary to what some of the less thoughtful may think, PPTP client functionality is a must for some of us; and telling us why we should not be using PPTP is, shall we say, less than helpful.