From: Adam Flinton 

George Sherwood wrote:

> I was reading the messages here on the NSLU2 and this weekend I decided to
> give it a try.  Thought it would be nice to have the dedicated storage and
> was very interested in all the hacking going on around this box.
>
> Initial install and upgrade of the Linksys firmware went smoothly and I
> hooked up a 300G disk. Everything recognized and I copied a bunch of my
> raw video files to the disk.  Then I setup two back-up jobs to check how
> they work from my Windows XP machine to the NSLU2.  Seemed to work fine
> once I removed a directory with Russian file names from the back-up.
> Still need a solution for those files.
>

Ask on the mailing list as a fair few of the heckers appear to be slavic.


> Then I took the plunge and flashed the firmware with the Unslung 3.16
> beta.  Carefully followed all the procedures and it is working great.  Now
> I have NFS and SSH running and I don't use telnet at all to get into the
> box.  There are so many packages already built for the NSLU2.  Not sure
> yet how much it can run at one time.
>
> Links:
> Linksys Product Information
> http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=35&scid=43&prid=640
> Hacked firmware for NSLU2
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
>
> George

I've been playing with the nslu2 & USB2 ethernet devices. You can have
a fairly good DMZ box.

this is another similar linux device:

http://www.buffalotech.com/wireless/products/NetworkProducts/HDH120LAN.html

Adam

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