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

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Alex Kleider (akleider at sonic.net):

> 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.)

Man, those are startlingly like a real computer, especially given the
eSATA port, using which you could hang huge amounts of disk/SSD off it
if useful.  For an Internet appliance, 512MB of RAM will still do a
whole lot, even now.

> 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.

You rock, sir!