cyber-knowledge.net— Using an old PC it's very easy to turn it into a fully functional router. Ditch that linksys or dlink for a powerful machine.
Sep 1, 2006View in Crawl 4
Maybe I'm being picky, but fully functional should mean supporting routing protocols like OSPF, RIP and BGP, WAN capabilities, and even different layer 3 protocols.
i personally see it going both ways i went with the wrt54g because at the time i needed because i just bought a new laptop with wireless and i wanted to use it and play with ithell at the time i didn't even know the model number or anything it wasn't that popular back when i bought it but a few months go by i start hearing about this hackible router and all the stuff you could do with it so then one day i was having problems with the wireless on the router and i look at the router and it is a wrt54g and then i put ddwrt and havent had a problem sincethats just me im almost sertain that if you use the old pc and load a linux distro its gonna turn into a project witch is good if your like projects me personally i loaded windows on the old pc and use it as a file server/large file downloader though vnc
Anyone using Gentoo as a router should either be familiar with a real OS and looking into sadism or fired for incompetence. That's just practical.Takes all of 5 minutes (once you have 2 working network cards) to make a software router.
I can appreciate your sarcasm, but for $90 I bought a Linux based wireless router that has given me nothing but frustration. Regardless of the firmware I used it simply isn't intelligent enough to survive the wrinkles with a typical home ADSL connection. On the other hand, I picked up a small footprint Dell P3 for $20 (63 watt power supply) and deployed the free version of ClarkConnect, Including the $20 wireless card I have a very robust $40 router with proxy caching that hasn't skipped a beat since I installed it. It outperforms any $300 router I've worked with in commercial applications so a little knowledge and the right tools beats the "routers for idiots" method out hands down.
lpse2000Sep 2, 2006
Maybe I'm being picky, but fully functional should mean supporting routing protocols like OSPF, RIP and BGP, WAN capabilities, and even different layer 3 protocols.
godspeedSep 2, 2006
i personally see it going both ways i went with the wrt54g because at the time i needed because i just bought a new laptop with wireless and i wanted to use it and play with ithell at the time i didn't even know the model number or anything it wasn't that popular back when i bought it but a few months go by i start hearing about this hackible router and all the stuff you could do with it so then one day i was having problems with the wireless on the router and i look at the router and it is a wrt54g and then i put ddwrt and havent had a problem sincethats just me im almost sertain that if you use the old pc and load a linux distro its gonna turn into a project witch is good if your like projects me personally i loaded windows on the old pc and use it as a file server/large file downloader though vnc
jack9Sep 2, 2006
Anyone using Gentoo as a router should either be familiar with a real OS and looking into sadism or fired for incompetence. That's just practical.Takes all of 5 minutes (once you have 2 working network cards) to make a software router.
bombadil78Sep 2, 2006
is there a way to restrict traffic throught the router? I work in education, and this would be great if I could filter the web with one box
nozmokingNov 27, 2008
I can appreciate your sarcasm, but for $90 I bought a Linux based wireless router that has given me nothing but frustration. Regardless of the firmware I used it simply isn't intelligent enough to survive the wrinkles with a typical home ADSL connection. On the other hand, I picked up a small footprint Dell P3 for $20 (63 watt power supply) and deployed the free version of ClarkConnect, Including the $20 wireless card I have a very robust $40 router with proxy caching that hasn't skipped a beat since I installed it. It outperforms any $300 router I've worked with in commercial applications so a little knowledge and the right tools beats the "routers for idiots" method out hands down.
tgc1Jan 12, 2010
And how many logs can you store on the router again? LOL
kevincw01Jan 12, 2010
depends on the size of the nfs drive you have mounted. Mind is 600 gigabytes... Who replies to a comment 3 years old?