William ChopsWestfield wrote:

>> 1) At each colony have the LINKSYS router running LINUX with the
>> following pieces in it...
> 
> I'll be interested in hearing whether the linux software replacements
> for the linksys boxes include the sorts of filtering capabilities that
> you're looking for.  Open source software authors tend to support a
> political agenda that doesn't approve of anything that smells like
> censorship. (unless of course it's censorship of spam!) 

Since DNS serving, firewalling and routing and even spam filtering are such
common functions, I imagine that the required functionality would be part
of most packages -- independently of the political inclinations of the
creators :) 

I don't know *x programs well enough to be able to tell easily what one can
do with a certain program, but here they list a few that are part of a
standard distribution that seems to work with the Linksys router:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration

Specifically they list iptables and dnsmasq, which look like they would be
able to provide at least part of the functionality. And I imagine that for
someone familiar with Linux it's probably not too difficult to integrate a
different firewalling or routing program with this distribution.

The hardware table for OpenWrt has more than I thought there would be:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware

Gerhard

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