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

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