[PLUG] tiny-box gateway routers, linux-based?

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Fri Jan 30 22:06:02 UTC 2004


At the personal telco meeting Wednesday, Jim Thompson of netgate.com
(mail order network goodies out of Spokane) was showing a little box
from Taiwan they were planning on peddling for about $100.  It is like
a linksys WAP/Firewall/Router, except geared more towards the Linux
hacker, with handy things like a serial port for debugging.  It is
so new, they don't have a name for it yet.  PTP raffled one, and it
ended up with Greg Buchan.  Or at least the promise of one, more
beta units are on the way.

There was some discussion that these would make great PTP nodes, but
PTP is based on NoCat which is written in Perl, which is a bit large
for most embedded systems.  However, where there is a will ...

Again, this product is in beta, so we don't even have a name yet,
much less implementation details.  But talking with Greg, and with
his background in security, he seems to be just about the best
possible fellow to get that box.  Expect good things.

Keith

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