I presume most people have by now read Cringely's piece on hacked Linux for Linksys WRT54G (and clones): http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040603.html That thing is $70-80, and comes as a 200 MHz MIPS box with 32 MByte RAM, and some 4-8 MByte flash. Stock antennas are crappy, but radios are very good, so long-range suitable with appropriate antennas. Current sveasoft firmware http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/index.php (it's open source, though bleeding edge firmware only available for $20/year subscription). You can build the image yourself on a Linux box with the right build environment (I haven't due to lack of time). It does VoIP, prioritizes traffic, has currently VPN pass-through and will do IPsec on future mesh-supporting firmware. I'm sure resident people can see plenty of intersting uses, and useful hacking projects. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]