On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Timothy Krantz
<tkrantz(a)stahurabrenner.com> wrote:
Oops forgot to send to the list
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)
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