-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:14 PM
To: Timothy Krantz
Cc: arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] FW: Simple routing device advice (mildly OT)
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Timothy Krantz
<tkrantz(a)stahurabrenner.com> wrote:
> Oops forgot to send to the list
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> From: Timothy Krantz [mailto:tkrantz@stahurabrenner.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:03 AM
> To: 'Pete Travis'
> Subject: RE: [fedora-arm] Simple routing device advice (mildly OT)
>
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> Hello Fedora ARM hackers,
>
> I'm shopping around for a device to provide basic routing and firewall
> functions.
>
> The goal is to provide remote access to an IP camera through satellite
> internet connection. To keep the camera and link from getting buried
> or abused, I want to limit access to connections from a particular
> /25. If using a dynamic IP, the satellite modem uses NAT and does not
> offer firewall or port forwarding capability. If using a static IP, a
> public IP is routed directly to the inside device, without a firewall.
>
> I'm thinking a small multipurpose ARM device would be a cost effective
> solution. Any problems that can't be resolved via ssh will be dealt
> with by post or remote hands, so it must be fairly reliable, not
> require user intervention to survive power cycles, etc. I'd like a
> dual Ethernet device, but a USB nic could do. There will need to be a
> case or finished chassis of some sort, preferably one that could
> protect that second NIC from accidental disconnection or tampering.
>
> Is there anything on the market that fits the bill, or am I better off
> with some OpenWRT supported consumer router, or maybe something
else?
>
> --Pete
>
>
>
> You might want to take a look at the Dreamplug or Mirabox from
globalscale.
> They both have dual Ethernet and cases. I use both for exactly the
> reasons you want. I have run fedora on both but currently run
> slackware on both for reasons clear only to me.
The dreamplug is only ARMv5 so is unsupported. I have a mirabox and it does
work but it has a terrible uboot from the last decade so doesn't support
device tree OOTB so there's hacks needed to support booting and it's not
particularly pretty, not something I would recommend particularly to deal
with remote support.
Peter
The mirabox u-boot is indeed old and does not support "un-appended" device tree,
that is true. It does work fine with the, albeit ugly, appended device tree. Mine is
running 3.16-rc6 with an appended device tree right now.
Tim