[dundee] Installing a Free WIFI Hotspot at the DCA

[jamie]

If an embeded router is used the current favourite for small office type
use is the nsu unit running dd-wrt(nice web based setup) or open-wrt
(either web or console config) both can run a large range o
of software doing prefiltering to further isolate a DMZ. But linksys do
still sell the wrt-54gl which is a revamp of the older router with 4M of
flash. Open-wrt aficionados seem to favour either the nsu which is a
network disk with a wifi router built in due to the storage on the disk
for system extensions. or the Asus wl-500g which has 8 or 16M of flash
and 16-32m ram. An advantage of the flash boxes are if they are
compromised or collapse under the strain they run from a ram image of
the flash. providing root is not compromised the flash image is only a
reset away from re-installing a clean image. If ports are left open i
suppose someone could walk in but that is the same as any other
os/router solution.Open-wrt only exposes ssh over the standard forwarded
services.