On Jun 26, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> there is a Linksys router that hosts Linux. It has quite
> a community also. More flexible than other, "normal"
> hardware routers.
>
There is/was a linksys router, the WRT54G, that actually RAN
linux, and was easily hacked to run your own linux instead
of the default, since linksys was force by GPL to publish
appropriate bits of info.

To reduce manufacturing costs, later versions of the WRT54G
cut flash and ram space in half, and were based on vxWorks
instead of linux (no published interfaces any more :-);
linksys/cisco took some flack over that, and gained back a
bit of respect by continuing to offer the old model as the
WRT54GL ("L" is for linux!)

Just recently, slashdot is reporting that someone hacked the
bootloader on the WRT54G to load linux again, returning it
to "hackable" status (though of course it has less ram and
flash, so...)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/06/26/2121232.shtml

There's another set of open router software based on linux
that runs on a bunch of different cheap commercial router
platforms over at http://openwrt.org/

BillW
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