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

[nick tagliasacchi]

That sounds awesome, I would definitely be interested in it.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, James Crasta <jcrasta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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