[ale] Seeking quality embedded SOHO firewall/wireless/vpn device that supports Linux

[John Wells]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:40 -0400, John Wells wrote:
>> Sorry for the delay...I've been traveling out of the country.
>>
>> I already have a device listed in the openwrt.org page...the Linksys
>> WRT54GS. I've been running SveaSoft Satori on it for years. However, I
>> was under the (perhaps mistaken?) impression that the hardware in the
>> device simply wasn't sufficient to run a decent VPN on...I was afraid
>> it would consume too many resources. Is this not the case? Also, since
>> Satori was simply an extension of the open source Linksys rom, I was
>> concerned with the firewall capability.
>>
>> So, do I already have the answer? Will OpenWrt provide a sufficient
>> firewall and VPN for my SOHO on the WRT54GS?
>
> Even if the cost of running a VPN on the device is expensive (I wouldn't
> know save for testing), it is entirely possible that you could just
> route to a server on the network that handles the VPN, and let it do
> what it does best, routing and the like.  Then you could run the VPN on
> a "real" server.  You can use iptables to enforce the requirement to go
> through the VPN to gain access to any network resources like the
> Internet.

Yes, but that gets me back to square one....I'm trying to eliminate
all my servers that simply provide infrastructure and replace them
with embedded low power machines. If I can get rid of this
firewall/vpn, I'm down to zero servers that have to be running all of
the time...