A Simple Linux Router Upgrade

Thanks! I love it. and no smoothwall team. ;)

Am also awaiting version 0.2 to be released now.

Steve

The old adage of the pot & the kettle comes to mind.

As you seem to have an affinity for grammatical pedanticism, I am sure you will enjoy the errors I found in your own response:

1) The first sentence contains a syntax error. It includes an incomplete phrase;

2) The second sentence employs mixed tenses. The correct portion should read, "It would have been easier to read, had you checked your grammar before posting the article;" and,

3) The third sentence is a complete disaster due to a number of serious mistakes in syntax, punctuation and basic grammar. It needs to be completely rewritten.

You knew someone was going to do this, didn't you?

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burns

Sure. A directory of break-in software appeared in /etc.
I don't know how it managed to get put there but I am guessing a bug in ftp. It appears that nothing was done with it (hard to be sure). The one thing that I noticed was that it needed Perl to run and the system does not have Perl on it. Also, the system only has 8MB of RAM which should slow down some approaches.

I have the files saved and, when I get a chance, will see what other interesting things they hold.

I didn't miss the LInux router project. I am well aware of it and expect most readers are as well. Had I not tripped on this different approach I would have loaded LRP. But, it's my nature to try alternatives--probably why I don't own any software from that big software marketing company in Redmond.

If you are looking for a "who did what" log, this is the wrong answer. On the other hand, it goes way beyond what you get with an inexpensive box such as the Linksys. Of particular interest to me is the ability to redirect port numbers. Thus, you could have multiple web servers behind the router all serving port 80 but, from the outside you could select a destination by the port number.

Clearly, a Linux box can do a lot more than this guy but this guy does what I needed to do with virtually no setup work.

Depends what you mean by logging. It has built in logging which records how much data passed through the router, when the connection was made, and the total amount of time on line. If you have an unlimited internet access line, this probably don't mean much. But for those who have limited access, i.e. broadband access with limited free access per month, this is a useful feature.

Also, the latest version 1.4.1 has settings for priority routing i.e. TOS