Comments on: Build Your Own Router http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/ by Mark Mayo Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:01:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: st17ch http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-117093 st17ch Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:37:43 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-117093 Anyone know of any boards with gig LAN and the ability to attach sata drives for adding network storage Anyone know of any boards with gig LAN and the ability to attach sata drives for adding network storage

]]> By: VMUNIX Blues » Blog Archive » Firewall update - OpenBSD wins http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-46541 VMUNIX Blues » Blog Archive » Firewall update - OpenBSD wins Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:44:01 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-46541 [...] Long story: I’ve been playing around with a WRAP board as my home firewall for a while now. (WRAP is basically a ready to go x86-ish PC-ish computer on a board). It’s a lot more fun than running dd-wrt on a Linksys WRT54GL, if only because I got to try manually bootstrapping a couple BSD and Linux kernels. And hey, it’s cool to setup a bare embedded board on the workbench, dangle cables off it, and build a custom case to stick it in. It’s a lot more functional, too, since you’ve got quite a bit more “oomph” in terms of CPU and memory than the WRT54G. At some point I put m0n0wall (a free embedded firewall software package based on FreeBSD) on it and it’s been doing firewall duty on my desk ever since. Well, until a couple weeks ago, when I did some wiring in the house and built a cage up in the corner of the garage to hold all the networking equipment.. and I dropped my WRAP box 8 feet onto the concrete floor. Apparently my custom WRAP case wasn’t as strong as I had hoped… Ooops. [...] [...] Long story: I’ve been playing around with a WRAP board as my home firewall for a while now. (WRAP is basically a ready to go x86-ish PC-ish computer on a board). It’s a lot more fun than running dd-wrt on a Linksys WRT54GL, if only because I got to try manually bootstrapping a couple BSD and Linux kernels. And hey, it’s cool to setup a bare embedded board on the workbench, dangle cables off it, and build a custom case to stick it in. It’s a lot more functional, too, since you’ve got quite a bit more “oomph” in terms of CPU and memory than the WRT54G. At some point I put m0n0wall (a free embedded firewall software package based on FreeBSD) on it and it’s been doing firewall duty on my desk ever since. Well, until a couple weeks ago, when I did some wiring in the house and built a cage up in the corner of the garage to hold all the networking equipment.. and I dropped my WRAP box 8 feet onto the concrete floor. Apparently my custom WRAP case wasn’t as strong as I had hoped… Ooops. [...]

]]> By: aran http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-9382 aran Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:07:57 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-9382 Is part 2 coming out anytime soon? I can't wait to try BYOR myself. Is part 2 coming out anytime soon? I can’t wait to try BYOR myself.

]]> By: toto http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-9344 toto Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:48:42 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-9344 I found the WRAP platforms available at siliconkit. <a href="http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/wrap.html" rel="nofollow">http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/wrap.html</a> toto I found the WRAP platforms available at siliconkit.
http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/wrap.html

toto

]]> By: mark http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-9276 mark Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:46:12 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-9276 It should hold up just fine. Processing wise, the CPU ought to be plenty fast to route a few megabit per second, which is all you'll need with consumer broadband. I'm optimistic you could push a good 20MBit/sec, even, which will cover you even with ADSL 2+. It should hold up just fine. Processing wise, the CPU ought to be plenty fast to route a few megabit per second, which is all you’ll need with consumer broadband. I’m optimistic you could push a good 20MBit/sec, even, which will cover you even with ADSL 2+.

]]> By: Mathew Peters http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-9274 Mathew Peters Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:06:53 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-9274 I think this is a great idea. How well do you think this would hold up with World of Warcraft and any other game we play at our LANs? I think this is a great idea. How well do you think this would hold up with World of Warcraft and any other game we play at our LANs?

]]> By: mark http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-8690 mark Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:13:11 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-8690 Charles: There's a few reasons. First is that Solaris/OpenSolaris won't run on this hardware AFAIK. Patching the OpenSolaris kernel to get it running isn't within the scope of my project. :) Secondly, Solaris's 10's native IP stack doesn't have QoS features for traffic shaping. At least, I don't think it does. Sun has/had a commercial product called "Bandwidth Manager" that does queuing, but I don't know if it even runs on Solaris 10. And it's not free anyways. Which means using Solaris is more or less out of the question, even if I was gong to build the BYOR on a "standard" PC. Charles: There’s a few reasons. First is that Solaris/OpenSolaris won’t run on this hardware AFAIK. Patching the OpenSolaris kernel to get it running isn’t within the scope of my project. :)

Secondly, Solaris’s 10’s native IP stack doesn’t have QoS features for traffic shaping. At least, I don’t think it does. Sun has/had a commercial product called “Bandwidth Manager” that does queuing, but I don’t know if it even runs on Solaris 10. And it’s not free anyways.

Which means using Solaris is more or less out of the question, even if I was gong to build the BYOR on a “standard” PC.

]]> By: charles meeks http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-8686 charles meeks Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:19:11 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-8686 Probably a dumb question; but why aren't you considering a minimally configured Solaris10 system as a codebase, like from opensolaris.org. Probably a dumb question; but why aren’t you considering a minimally configured Solaris10 system as a codebase, like from opensolaris.org.

]]> By: mark http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-8684 mark Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:16:06 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-8684 Thomas: Yeah, I was checking out m0n0wall. Apparently there's a FreeBSD 5.x based "fork" of m0n0wall called pfSense (that would include ALTQ) as well. Lots of stuff to try out. Glad to hear you recommend the WRAP units. Vasileios: Never heard of the T-Cube, no. It seems like you need to run a "special" ucLinux or something on them. I'll check 'em out more. A bit ugly, though. :) Thomas: Yeah, I was checking out m0n0wall. Apparently there’s a FreeBSD 5.x based “fork” of m0n0wall called pfSense (that would include ALTQ) as well. Lots of stuff to try out. Glad to hear you recommend the WRAP units.

Vasileios: Never heard of the T-Cube, no. It seems like you need to run a “special” ucLinux or something on them. I’ll check ‘em out more. A bit ugly, though. :)

]]> By: Vasileios Anagnostopoulos http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-8683 Vasileios Anagnostopoulos Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:58:27 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-8683 Have you heard about the T-Cube? I just mention it, it seems to be expensive, I do not know : http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3619879482.html Strangely , SUN is a member of the T-Engine : http://www.t-engine.org/english/member.html which is an operating system for this Orange-Dwarf Is it useful for your project? Have you heard about the T-Cube? I just mention it, it seems to be expensive, I do not know : http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3619879482.html

Strangely , SUN is a member of the T-Engine : http://www.t-engine.org/english/member.html which is an operating system for this Orange-Dwarf

Is it useful for your project?

]]> By: Thomas Stromberg http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/07/13/build-your-own-router/#comment-8682 Thomas Stromberg Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:22:21 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/?p=370#comment-8682 I highly recommend the WRAP units. I also highly recommend running m0n0wall on them! It's a very painless minimal version of FreeBSD on a firewall. Very slick web interface. I highly recommend the WRAP units. I also highly recommend running m0n0wall on them! It’s a very painless minimal version of FreeBSD on a firewall. Very slick web interface.

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