On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 18:30:05 +1030, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's plenty of advantages in using a router (small, reliable, quick > to get going, easy to connect more than two devices to the one box, > etc.). But I can see one common disadvantage - they're less > programmable than using a computer. If you want special rules, you > might be out of luck. If you want to create port-forwarding rules, > you've got limited options, and you may be only able to specify a few > ports to forward. Mine lets me specify only 8, which isn't really > enough if you have to forward a few ports to one PC for some particular > protocol, then want to do the same for some other PCs. Mine doesn't > even let me set UDP or TCP rules, it's just port numbers. You can buy a Buffalo 5 port wireless router for about $45 shipped and run linux on it using DDWRT. Currently these are restricted to a 2.4 kernel, but you can still have plenty of betworking fun. OpenWRT will probably be supporting the G125s soon and 2.6 kernels probably in around 6 months (based on B43 probably being well supported in 2.6.25 and some lag before the OpenWRT project uses it) which will provide even more flexibility.
