Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:16:37 +0100 From: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Bachilo Dmitry <root@solink.ru>, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd Message-ID: <70e8236f05092308167c64d045@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <433418B1.3020207@samsco.org> References: <433436E2.3040603@ThePacific.Net> <200509230725.21156.thierry@herbelot.com> <20050923090806.GA21906@poupinou.org> <200509231716.19434.root@solink.ru> <1127476245.17949.2.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <20050923120025.GD21906@poupinou.org> <433418B1.3020207@samsco.org>
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On 9/23/05, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > Bruno Ducrot wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:50:45PM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: > > > >>Le Vendredi 23 septembre 2005 =E0 12:16 +0200, Bachilo Dmitry a =E9crit= : > >> > >>>Forwarding to FreeBSD hackers. (Because i am hacking WRT right now and= only > >>>Linux flashes work) > >>>---------- ?????????????????????? ?????????????????? ---------- > >>> > >>>Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd > >>>Date: ?????????????? 23 ???????????????? 2005 17:06 > >>>From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> > >>>To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > >>>Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <marcos@thepacific.net> > >>> > >>>Le Friday 23 September 2005 11:08, vous avez =E9crit : > >>> > >>>>On the other hand, it's the wireless thing. If not needed, this > >>>>should be fun to do a port, somehow, even though it's a wireless > >>>>router. > >>> > >>>The "cool factor" of porting FreeBSD to the WRT54G cannot be underesti= mated, > >>>but Linux ports were enormously helped by the opening of the sources o= f the > >>>Linksys Linux port (which is absent for FreeBSD) and the big number of > >>>willing developpers (just have a look at the *number* of different Lin= ux > >>>ports to the WRT). > >>> > >>>The latest 6.0 release would be an excellent target, with its brand-ne= w > >>>support for WPA and virtual APs ... who volunteers ? > >> > >> The Linksys WRT54g wireless router is based on a Broadcom CPU > >> (derived from MIPS) and FreeBSD/mips seems to be a dead > >> project :-( > > > > > > Indeed. It's targeted to SGI platforms anyway. Maybe there is a need = to > > start a new port if there is enough people interrested? > > > > There has been talk of doing this in the past year from some people, but > I don't know if it got very far. If you're inspired, go for it! There > are plenty of docs on the web about how to attach a serial port header > and bootstrap it. And, don't underestimate the mips32 work that is > already in the tree; it's likely a good starting point. > > And, it's more than just a 'coolness' factor. I'd really like to have > pf running on mine, that way I could rid of the clunky machine doing > static NAT + firewall on my DSL line. > > Scott m0n0wall or it's version on steroids pfsense would be real cool to have on a WRT54g 8) >THe linux firewall capabilities are soooooo last century =3D-) Except for some nice projects/patches that do Layer 7 and allow filtering or queueing on specific traffic. ALTQ applied to marked packets would be lovely :) This would be very nice to have, except everyone (Daniel Hartmeier included) tells it's a bad ideia to have protocol inspection at the firewall level.... well, going off topic but couldn't resist ;) -- Joao Barros
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