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Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev <at> laposte.net> writes: |
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> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:10:40PM +0000, James wrote: |
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> > I'd like to be able to download some open source linux to the router |
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> > hardware if updates and pathces are not maintained by the vendor? |
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> > That way I do not purchase something that is to be abandoned in |
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> > a few years by the vendor. |
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> > It's just a small home/office so 3x100Mb E would be fine, but GigE |
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> > ports would be better. I'm flexible on the CPU/arch of the hardware, |
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> > so all discussion and suggestions are welcome. In an idealized world |
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> > I'd pay extra for a gentoo_derivative based router; but all I find |
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> > is the WRT, devil_linux and such, nothing really cool and interesting. |
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> For the hardware, you could get a alix2d3: |
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> http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm |
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I actually recently acquired one of these from a friend. |
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> For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: |
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> http://www.alpinelinux.org/about |
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Why would that be better than putting lilblue (gentoo) on |
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the board. Maybe somebody who has success with booting off |
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of usb (and that definitely is not me) could test lilblue |
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on an alix2d3 board? |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Install_Gentoo_on_a_bootable_USB_stick |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc/Lilblue |
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I'm not sure the arch of a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800; |
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isn't that compatible with i686 binaries? I found this: |
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" When it comes to compiling, just compile with -march=geode. That option is |
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defined on any i386/x86-64 gcc, so no real need to cross-compile. If you |
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want to run the binary on your compiler host as well (without a recompile), |
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try something like -march=i486 -mtune=geode. " |
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How did you have your make.conf files (or similar under Alpine) set up? |
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If I go this route, I'd really rather run gentoo or something |
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quite similar, rather than a distro I not familiar with. |
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> That's the combo I used in a recent past and it worked quiet fine |
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> (802.1q VLAN, traffic shaping with tc, advanced firewall with scripted |
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> iptables rules, ethernet cards controlled with ethtool (I could fix |
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> speed/duplex for incompatible network hardware), ssh, etc). |
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I'm not familiar with Alpine linux. How many of your scripts would be |
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useful on gentoo? If what you did is sensitive, just drop to me privately..... |
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> While there is no wifi I found this MUCH better than WRT54GL, for |
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> example. |
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Yep, not in love with any of the wrt54 codes/systems/hardwares..... |
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I do not need or want a wireless interface on this device. |
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thx, |
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James |