Possible feature mix ?

[exXtreme]

Hi all,

I am new in this area but I know what I need from my WL-500g. Please, can I ask somebody for answer if it is possible to build firmware with all requested features (see below) ? Without some how-to newbie guides I will not be able to build it by my own. I have red Custom FirmwareTalks but some questions are not clearly answered for me (sorry, newbie).


SSHd with console, TCP port forwarding and remote (reverse) port forwarding, SFTP (replacement for build-in) FTPd, configurable listening port (22 is not usable in all situations), password+key auth will be great:)
Wake-on-LAN client (for sending WOL packet to LAN)
DHCPd with static leases (but still separate for WLAN)
DNSd integrated with DHCPd (so I will be able to resolve dynamic addresses by hostnames - for LAN segment at least), simple hostname registration, resolution hostname <-> IP address
regulation of radiated power output on WLAN (must-have in Czech Republic)
WLAN Site Survey
LAN->WLAN: NAT, open ports etc.
VPN dial-in server (IPsec with SHA-1/3DES or AES, PPTP with MPE-128)
port-knocking based dynamic firewall rules (to enable defined ports on-demand for specific clients)
Intrudion Detection System
disable all printing support & LPT support at all excluding leave USB printing via LPD, disable USB & LAN cameras (if necessary)


Is this scope feasable or not ?

Thanx for advice

exXtreme

[exXtreme]

I have forgot to list traffic shaping (or QoS) to manage upload mainly, per source IP is necessary (different settings for LAN and WAN), applications (IP adress and TCP/UDP port address) will be useful too.

[Oleg]

To whom you're proposing this? ASUS guys? :D

[WlanMan]

Hehe

If you had read the forum a bit, the half of your things is in olegs custom firmware RC5, the other half is not possible because of cpu limitations (125Mhz) or because no one has tried it ;)

[exXtreme]

Hehe

If you had read the forum a bit, the half of your things is in olegs custom firmware RC5, the other half is not possible because of cpu limitations (125Mhz) or because no one has tried it ;)

Thx :], I have read the forum. But sometimes it is stated that one feature can be added but second must be removed due memory limits. So I have asked for advice what is possible or what is not and why (from perspective of combinations). And I am not sure where to find feature list of customized firmware builds to check it by myself (with details, of course, to not place similar questions like this one).

Maybe answer like "ad x - included / not possible / ... , see ... for details" is more what I can expect ...

[exXtreme]

To whom you're proposing this? ASUS guys? :D

Bad title of the thread, I have tried to correct it (look at Title of my 1st post in this thread) but thread remains the same. Is it bug or feature ?

[WlanMan]

This is more feature like i thing, my very old Perl Forum combined 1. Title and thread title as you thought, but most newer Forums don´t do so. Some Admin has to change it ...

For the Memory, since you can start allmost everything from external USB Storage, that´s no limit. Only Limit is 125Mhz and 16MB Ram ...

Look http://wl500g.dyndns.org, there´s all listed what to know about Custom Firmware :). All listed items are new or better to Asus Firmware, all what was in by Asus remains also in Olegs Firmware.

Greets

[Antiloop]

Bad title of the thread, I have tried to correct it (look at Title of my 1st post in this thread) but thread remains the same. Is it bug or feature ?
feature.. the post and the thread isn't the same
i've changed it for u :)

[monnier]

The SSH support in the custom firmwares is fairly limited. I don't think it offers
port forwarding or sftp support. But you can try to run openssh directly, although
it might eat up too much memory.

Compiling a wake-on-lan client should be pretty easy as well.

The custom firmware comes with dnsmasq, which does DHCP&DNS, so you should be all set on that side (although you might want to double check the manpage to see how you can have separate domains for LAN and WLAN).

I have no idea what's a "WLAN site survey".

I seem to remember someone claiming he had a VPN server running, so that should also be feasible.

As for printing I highly and strongly recommend not to use LPD but to use JetDirect instead: not only it typically works better (faster and more reliable), but the memory use is *much* lower.

BTW, when trying things out (especially big programs), it's worth it to use a USB flash drive: upload by connecting it to your PC and then plugging it into the router: this gives you a lot more disk space to play with, and it saves you from installing new firmware and rebooting. Once you've done you tests and know what you actually want to use and how, you can make your own firmware. By removing unneeded files (including gifs) you should be able to fit a surprising amount of stuff.