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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. HA by pheared · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be nice if they have High Availability on their feature list. Some nice solid appliances like this would be interesting.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Compiled from source... by Binestar · · Score: 5, Funny

    all compiled from source.

    As opposed to say, a Linksys Router, which we all know is compiled from Cheerios. =)

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  7. 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

    1. Re:RH8? by NevDull · · Score: 5, Funny

      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

  8. 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.

  9. 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