[Soekris] m0n0wall alternatives?

[Noyan DEDE]

You guys need to consider other hw platforms (architecture-wise).
For this particular application I'd go for a Linksys WRT54G + Sveasoft
or your own custom firmware.

The Linksys unit costs around $60-$70 and runs on a very strong platform
(if my memory servers me right Intel Xscale 400 Mhz CPU and 16 Flash, 64
RAM or something very similar to this configuration).  Include the
802.11g radio and most importantly runs Linux.

www.linksysinfo.org and www.sveasoft.com are good starting points.

The sveasoft distribution has a lot of features like :
Hotspot portal
PPTP VPN server
Two-way bandwidth management (includes P2P, VoIP, IM)
SSH client and server
Telnet
Startup, firewall, and shutdown scripts
WDS repeater mode
Client mode (support multiple attached devices)
Adhoc mode
OSPF routing
RIP2 routing
Power boost to 251 mw
Antenna select
Static DHCP address assignments
Additional DDNS support
Wireless MAC address clone
VLAN support (hardware only)
WPA over WDS
WPA/TKIP with AES
Client mode WPA
Client isolation mode
P2P blocking/bandwidth management (Gnutella, Kazaa, etc)
Port triggering
Wake-On-Lan
Remote syslog
Remote Ntop statistics
SNMP
Safe backup and restore
Reset on firmware upgrade
Status includes system uptime and load average
Status for wireless clients and WDS
Site survey
Remote NTP server support
...


Regards

Noyan

-----Original Message-----
From: soekris-tech-bounces+noyan=onur.net at lists.soekris.com
[mailto:soekris-tech-bounces+noyan=onur.net at lists.soekris.com] On Behalf
Of tommy at bishoptower.com
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:45 AM
To: Jim Thompson
Cc: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
Subject: Re: [Soekris] m0n0wall alternatives?

Hey, include me on this one too, we need about 50 of those boards if
they exist.

Tom Johnson
802DSL.COM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thompson" <jim at netgate.com>
To: "David Young" <dyoung at pobox.com>
Cc: <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Soekris] m0n0wall alternatives?


> David Young wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:28:47AM -0700, Matt Peterson wrote:
>>
>>>>One of the things you could do is spit out a set of variables to a
file. 
>>>>The various RC/startup files on netbsd (and freebsd) are
particularity 
>>>>suited to this.   The web server could suck-in the existing setup,
and 
>>>>then the various CGIs (or some in-process equalent) could modify the

>>>>in-core version.
>>>
>>>This works well and is fairly reliable, none of this replacing rc
scripts 
>>>or reinventing the wheel work.  In a previous gig I did this on
FreeBSD 
>>>with PHP's Config PEAR module (it's geared for INI, XML and other
formats 
>>>to modify, but also works fine for simple key="value" parsing too).
This 
>>>setup allows shell users to still modify files.
>>>
>>>In theory you could pump out simple rc script modifications with sed
and 
>>>awk; or is your distro so small you lack a shell?
>>
>>
>> I couldn't live w/o my Bourne shell.  It's on there.
>>
>>
>>>On the flip side, 512Mb CF's are $50 @ Costco now-a-days.
>>
>>
>> My goal is to run turn-key, community rooftop routing software on a
>> platform that costs, say, $60.  Likely specs are 4-8MB Flash, 16-32MB

>> RAM.
>> I want to fit into that space:
>
> Now you're talking about stuff that is right up my alley.
>
>>     * init :-)
>>     * sh, sed, awk, grep(?)
>>     * misc net utils: ifconfig, netstat
>>     * rc scripts
>>     * dhclient
>>     * dhcpd
>>     * sshd
>>     * hslsd (routing)
>>     * zebra (RIB/FIB for the routing)
>>     * syslog
>>     * thttpd
>>     * name daemon
>>     * CGI configurator for firewall/routing/name service
>> * etc...
>
> I'm curious where you're going to find a $60 platform with 4-8MB of
flash 
> and 16-32MB of DRAM.  Have you identified one?
>
> For sure its not Soekris (no board Soren sells is priced this low), so

> maybe we should take this off-line.
>
>> Some builds will additionally contain:
>>
>>     * NoCatSplash
>>     * IPSec
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