[geeks] Wireless Routers

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Tue Jul 4 16:42:31 CDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 17:29, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
> >> So, do there exist wireless routers that are ACTUALLY wireless
> >> routers, and not wireless NAT boxes?
> >
> > Even the basic Linksys WRT54G series as shipped, has this - you have
> > to dig around and find the option to switch from "gateway" to
> > "router".
> 
> That's unfortunate.  I was rather hoping to avoid Linksys, but it seems
> everyone else it too caught up in the NAT-box game.

There is nothing stopping you from using *BSD with a supported card on a
system and then booting off compact flash for reliability.

--Patrick



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