[wellylug] Linux on Linksys WRT54G

[Cliff Pratt]

Ewen McNeill wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > Someone here may be interested in this so I thought I'd
 > mention it.
 >
 > My home firewall is now a Linksys WRT54G[0] running Linux
 > 2.4.20 with Openswan[1] for the IPSec tunnels, a GRE
 > tunnel, ssh (dropbear) and Shorewall[2] for the firewall
 > rules.  I'm using the OpenWRT[3] Linux
 > distribution and various packages for it, with a few
 > modifications.
 >
 > I have 112kB free on the flash.  Yes, 112 _k_B.  In fact
 > at present I haven't got the traffic shaping stuff set up
 > because the net/sched modules take up more than the free
 > space available.[4]
 >
How about building the firewall rules somewhere else (using 
Shorewall or whatever) and just moving the rules? After all, 
  all Shorewall (and others) do is generate the iptables 
command.

Cheers,

Cliff