[LUGSB] Next LUGSB Meeting: Custom Router Firmware Meeting (This Wednesday)

[James Crasta]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Michael G Florea
<mflorea at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> If anyone can drop by with a router running tomato, that would be great.

I don't feel like disconnecting it and bringing it out, but I can
tunnel you into the admin of my Tomato router at home, and this will
allow for demoing the pretty live bandwidth graphs (I'll leave a
torrent running or something) and QoS utilities/pie charts.


A bonus: I would like to give away to someone in LUGSB (or really
anyone else who's really interested) a La Fonera router
( http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/LaFonera ) running dd-wrt.

What the Fonera is, is a very small (slightly bigger than a pack of
cards, with a power brick about the size of a few packs of gum) device
with one ethernet port and a wireless antenna. It was distributed as
Fon's project to take over the world with paywall'ed wifi access
points. Good luck to them, I say.

Anyway, after installing DD-WRT, the device can:
 - be a standard wireless router
 - be a wireless access point (simple wifi-ethernet bridging)
 - be a wireless client bridge (to, for example, get your xbox or
wired-only PC to join  a wireless network)
 - be a wireless repeater (range extender)

It's also capable of being rigged for all sorts of evil and awesome
things, like wireless network stumbling, etc.

I'd have to discuss this with someone on the e-board, as I don't know
the rules for giving stuff away, before I can actually give it away in
earnest, but the offer's out there.

James