WRT54G(S) (was Re: [plug] Wireless Linux + A good linux book!)

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:12, Matt Kemner wrote:
> Hi Chris
> 
> > I haven't yet tried running the WRT54g with OpenWRT but from my
> > experience with the default firmware this router is crap. Is it the
> > hardware or the default firmware that is the problem?
> >
> > That is does it actually run quite well with OpenWRT?
> 
> I have a couple of them myself, and have helped set up over a dozen of
> them (all with OpenWRT), and found they are GREAT little linux boxen, so
> long as you bear in mind the CPU is not a workhorse.
> 
> Mine run Quagga (BGP - dynamic routing) and Frottle for my links to the
> WaFreeNet.
> 
> I even managed to get asterisk compiled and running on it, which works -
> so long as you're not transcoding.
> 

So I imagine you could plug a number of SIP phones in for a inexpensive
PABX that connects to an upstream SIP proxy such as a Cisco Call manger
or Asterisk super server.

Would probably be to much overhead for the AMP 
(http://amp.coalescentsystems.ca/) interface and all its requirements?


> They also have serial headers onboard, so with a little bit of hacking you
> can run a serial port on them.  I helped install two of them that are
> piping serial data (at 4800 baud) to each other between two buildings.

Cool, but why?

Any way of hacking some external storage into it?
> One of the best features is that it comes with a vlan-capable switch,
> which means you are able to address each of the ports individually - use
> them to segregate networks etc, and basically end up with a 5-port router,
> plus wireless.
> 
Very cool. 
> Again you need to bear in mind the limitations of the CPU, routing speed
> maxes out at around 20Mbit/s, but for my purposes that's fast enough.
> 
>  - Matt
> 
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