[SlugBug] OpenWRT and Wireless Router

Minase lists at encapsulated.net
Sun Jun 4 23:36:50 BST 2006


> The need to get a new firewall is increasing though -- I've been
> trying this evening get an XP box with Cisco VPN Client through the
> OpenBSD firewall, with no luck.

Just a word of warning: the WRT54g is great, and IPsec /passthrough/
will certainly work just fine, just don't expect to get great
performance on it if you want an IPsec tunnel to terminate on the AP
itself - it just doesn't have the uumph for 3DES at 54mbit :). AES
would almost certainly perform better (i don't know if well /enough/,
i've never tried on a WRT), but <gasp> the WinXP IPsec implementation
doesn't support that.

Personally i still have a huge PC router box around and use the WRT
as a simple bridge :\



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