After much investigation, it looks like building my own firmware for the LinkSys RV082 will take too long. I will pursue it at a later date but for now I will build my own.
The requirements are:
- Low cost
- Small form factor
- Quiet
- Low heat
- A minimum of three ethernet ports
- Serial port console access
- Powerful enough to be able to route and filter at least 10 Mbps of traffic.
- Linux, FreeBSD and/or OpenBSD compatible
- Loading operating system from Compact Flash
Nice to haves:
- PXE boot
- USB port
- IDE port
So far, the contenders are: …Continue reading » Multi-WAN Router / Firewall: Soekris VS WRAP
I have just acqutired a LinkSys RV082 VPN router and I want to put custom firmware on it. I love the custom firmwares for the LinkSys WRT54G (e.g. OpenWrt, DD-WRT) but they don’t run on the RV082. After much searching on the internet, I found a project which might eventually lead to custom firmware. The project is OpenIXP. Currently, it’s targetted at the LinkSys WRV54G but the goal stated on the homepage is “to produce a Linux based open environment for the Intel IXP4xx processors”. The project leader also has some great background information on his other site.
Anyway, I was talking to the project leader and he said that in order to port OpenIXP to the RV082 (and possibly RV042?) the first step is to open up the box and figure out what hardware it has. So, I did that. Below is a summary of how I opened the box and what I found inside. …Continue reading » Under the Hood of the LinkSys RV082 VPN Router
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