[ale] Seeking quality embedded SOHO firewall/wireless/vpn device that supports Linux

[Greg Freemyer]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> John Wells wrote:
>> For years and years, I've used a combination of a Linksys WAP and open
>> source (at times homegrown, Smoothwall, PFsense, and now IPCop)
>> firewalls to protect my home LAN. However, given space requirements in
>> my office and the attempt to be greener, I'm eliminating most of my
>> desktop machines with low-power devices. I first replaced my homegrown
>> NAS with a NetGear ReadyNAS device (which, btw, is very nice and runs
>> Debian under the covers)...now, I'm looking at the firewall.
>>
>> I'd like a device that will provide very, very good protection on the
>> broadband and wireless interfaces, while allowing wireless clients to
>> connect via VPN so that they can access the rest of my LAN. It's also
>> very important that the VPN works well with Linux.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a decent, affordable, and most important, secure, device?
>
> Anything you can find on these lists:
>
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
>
> With one of the firmwares from this list:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#Third-party_firmware_projects
>
> I know that OpenWRT and DD-WRT support OpenVPN:
>
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenVPNHowTo
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/OpenVPN
>
> Or just get a router with USB (like the Asus WL-500G or Linksys
> WRTSL54GS) and run Debian:
>
> http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWRT
>
> -Brian
I don't know anything about it, but netgear just announced a product
targeting Open Source firmware. (WGR614L)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9185

Apparently the firmware they provide with it does not have VPN
support, but I don't see why you can't put whatever you want on it.

Greg
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