[lug] Wanted: Tiny diskless, fanless Linux Box for Firewall/Router/Hub/NAT

[David Morris]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:59:33PM -0700, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I'm really frustrated with LinkSys, D-Link and Motorola's
> low end wireless-access-points/firewall/router/hub/nat
> boxes. It is bad enough that DLink's tech support hung up
> on me and Motorola's tech support advised me to download a
> buggy firmware upgrade that rendered the little box
> useless.
> 
> Apparently none of these little boxes can accommodate
> multiple external IP addresses in such a way that I can
> host multiple web sites in Apache HTTPD. Apparently these
> little boxes can only accommodate a single external IP
> address. They seem to have the user interface on their
> firewall settings page to specify multiple external
> addresses. It is very confusing and tech support is not
> very helpful.


I have not set it up myself as for the moment I only need a
single IP but I believe the Linksys WRT54G using Sveasoft's
Linux firmware can easily handle multiple
interfaces.  If I recall correctly in the free version you
would have to set it up manually using the telnet/ssh
interface to access the system or you can pay a small fee to
get a more current version of the firmware in which there is
web-based form configuration support for it.

...if I am remembering correctly, of course ;)

--David