Re: [tor-dev] The Torouter project - where are we now?

On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 19:36 -0400, andrew@torproject.org wrote:

Torouter based on openwrt is an experiment. It seems it's going to

cost

us more time, effort, and people than we have to spare. The entire torouter, or bridge/relay-by-default in hardware, is an experiment.

I'd much rather see a debian-based torouter exist. We can more easily integrate debian packages of the necessary architecture, likely ARM, into our build farm than we can an entirely new OS and build environment.

I recently came across:

http://www.debwrt.net/

DebWrt is all about running Debian GNU/Linux on embedded devices, for example wireless routers. DebWrt connects two very powerful technologies: Debian and OpenWrt.

http://dev.debwrt.net/wiki/TableOfSupportedHardware

Cheers, Rob van der Hoeven.

http://freedomboxblog.nl