Interesting router feature

[johnridley]

With Charter's new bandwidth cap, I wanted to make sure that the router kept track of our usage. It's got several options for saving data regularly, but the non-volatile ones were "not suggested" since it writes to NVRAM and if you do that too often you can wear it out.

But it turns out that this router can mount a shared hard drive within your network and use that for data storage. Pretty cool. Tomato firmware on a Linksys WRT-54GL, btw.

Comments

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yeah. That'd justify the Linksys, but I personally would really prefer something that runs OpenBSD or FreeBSD so I can use PF. Hmm, I wonder if I could get my funky firewall setup happening under Linux...