[dundee] Any OpenWRT afficianados around?

[Adam Sampson]

Colin Brough <colin.brough at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> I could try and find some hardware that OpenWRT runs on (or dd-WRT?),
> but there seems a dearth of supported 8 port kit...

Bear in mind that if your switch supports VLAN trunking, you only need
one port on the router...

My home network uses cheap-ish HP 8-port switches; I've got a VLAN for
the internal network and another for the ADSL-PPPoE bridge, and the
router's attached to a port with VLAN trunking so it can have interfaces
on both networks. The router used to be a low-end PC, but I've just
replaced it with a BeagleBone Black. It'd be easy enough to plug an
AP-mode USB stick into the router, or configure another VLAN for a
standalone AP.

(This is the same architecture that's used by at least some
consumer-grade 4-port routers; e.g. the WRT54G that the above setup
replaced has a 6-port VLAN-capable switch chip with one port hardwired
to an internal Ethernet interface.)

Thanks,

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>