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May 31, 2006, 8:17 am
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If I want to build an equivalent of an inexpensive firewall like NETGEAR
RP616 (40€), by using a linux-based firewall embedded software, which
hardware platform can I use ?
Soekris net4501 matches the requirements except one, the price a little
bit to high (150 €).
WRAP is also relatively expensive.
No idea of other cheaper hardware platform to run light linux distro ?

Is is possible to use a commercial product (NETGEAR, DLINK, LINKSYS,
etc.) and replace its software by a linux-based custom software ???

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Wolfgang Mües Contact options for registered users 's Avatar (by Gravatar) posted on
May 31, 2006, 6:53 pm
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Re: inexpensive hardware platform for linux based firewall
Hello Philippe,


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Google for OpenWRT

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Wolfgang

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Rick Low Contact options for registered users 's Avatar (by Gravatar) posted on
June 2, 2006, 2:46 pm
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Yes, I second that. Then look at http://www.linksysinfo.org and check
which WRT54 hardware versions support Linux.

By using this info and checking product serial numbers in the store, I
found an older WRT54GS that is now happily running OpenWRT.

--rick

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