

This actually requires a startup script on the router, with a line to remove the wireless module so it won’t try to reenable itself: wl radio off The last thing I want for the firewall is to be broadcasting an SSID and allow wireless associations. The first step after flashing the firmware with the latest dd-wrt build (v24-sp2) was to take off the antennas and turn off the radio. (We bought local so we’d have it sooner, and it was a bit more). We went with the WRT54GL, currently as cheap as $50 on Amazon. Linksys wireless routerīeing familiar with the dd-wrt project, I was pretty sure I could build a firewall out of a Linksys router. Not having a spare on hand, I was scrambling for a solution. Until last week these were protected by an aging OpenBSD firewall running packet filter and all was well until midweek when the motherboard failed.

New Media has a number of development servers located in-house where we get stuff done before releasing it out into the wild.
