[NBLUG/talk] Small, not embedded hardware.

[Glenn Kerbein]

Peter,

It appears, albiet without much confidence from the developer wiki, that
OpenWRT supports PPPoE without passwords. See:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/network#protocol_pppoe_ppp_over_ethernet .

There's a lot of hardware options, and most of their Linksys units are
the old WRT units.

Thank you!

On 02/08/2015 12:46 PM, Peter Lutz wrote:
> I use Buffalo hardware with OpenWRT very successfully.  Does what I
> need, but I don't know about PPPOE without password.  You may be able
> to put OpenWRT on your Linksys to start with and see if it will work.
> You may not be able to get from OpenWRT on the Linksys back to stock
> firmware, however.
>
> My son uses a mini-ITX computer running Debian.  That does EVERYTHING
> but may cost more than you want to invest.
>
> Peter
>
> On 02/08/2015 12:21 PM, Glenn Kerbein wrote:
>> Hello LUG members,
>>
>> I'm currently constructing a new network for my home. I've used some
>> decent Linksys units with Wireless N capability; but they cannot do
>> PPPOE without a username or password.
>> My first question is this: does anyone know of any all-in-one
>> router/switch/wireless units that can do passwordless PPPOE? DD-WRT does
>> not have this capability (nor does Tomato), IIRC.
>>
>> My second question is this: I was thinking about rolling out some legacy
>> hardware and turning it into a router. I am erring against a full-blown
>> (mini-)ATX computer for power consumption and hardware cost reasons. I
>> was looking at the Arduino board with some additional Ethernet ports
>> outfitted. The issue is that there doesn't appear to be any routing
>> software (Quagga) available for this platform.
>>
>> Buying a full-blown business class Cisco unit is not really within my
>> price range ($200 for a consumer-usage router is steep).
>>
>> Thank you for your input.
>> Glenn.
>>
>

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Delta