[sf-lug] changed subject: "To just do NAT router/gateway service"

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 18:40 -0700, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2018-04-18 18:01, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> > To just do NAT router/gateway service, you could just employ any Linux
> > box whatsoever that has two network ports.  It's pretty dead-simple.
> > Adding a running copy of the ISC DHCP daemon (server) program is
> > likewise no big deal.  (If PPPoE is required, this is also where you'd
> > run the Roaring Penguin PPPoE client.)  Adding WAP functionality would
> > take a bit more doing.  (I would guess Daniel knows all about that.)
> 
> If anyone wants to do what Rick describes above, I have several 
> Dreamplugs[1] lying around.
> I'd be happy to give one (or more of them) away, in exchange perhaps for 
> the promise that if anything useful is done with them the method of 
> making it happen is 'open sourced' i.e. so I could make another do the 
> same.
> 
> [1] https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-54-dreamplug-devkit.aspx
> (It's got two ethernet ports.)
> 
> If one were to add a usb wifi dongle, it could be configured to serve as 
> a wifi access point as well.
> This I've successfully done using a Raspberry Pi.

OpenWrt is also installable on these things for a functional equivalent:
https://www.frys.com/product/8779451