On 8/22/2010 8:11 PM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: >> Your Linksys router IS a simple 32-bit computer running Linux (typicall >> an ARM processor, not really any faster than a PIII, probably slower >> actually). A PIII has more than enough processing power to function as a >> router, DNS, and DHCP server. And probably as a proxy server too. The >> proxy server's limitations would mostly be a matter of fast enough disk >> access, partitularly if it was set up as a caching proxy server. > For what its worth, most Linksys routers these days run VxWorks, not > an embedded Linux. (Apparently they can put 8MB or so less RAM in > them with VxWorks.) > > Another option you could try is to set up your own DNS server (if you > install your own firmware onto that Linksys router you can probably do > this.) Then, you can whitelist specific DNS domains, e.g. google.com, > wikipedia.org, etc. (I won't even suggest you try to come up with a > comprehensive list of domains to blacklist.) Everything else can be > redirected to 127.0.0.1. The advantage of this is its simpler and > very powerful. The downside is you'll be blocking access to a fair > number of legitimate sites (but probably not as many as you'd think.) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Look into buffalo tech. their higher end "n" routers run dd-wrt which IS Linux based.