[ale] Hardware recommendation for Proxy

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

John Burdell wrote:
 > I just put Fedora on an old box and setup port forwarding on
 > my router to let him login via ssh and then he tunnels his traffic
 > so that everything appears to come from my home connection.
 >
 > I would like to continue to let my friend use my home
 >  connection,
 > but was wondering if it was possible to do this using a Linksys
 > WRT-54G?  The old box I'm currently letting him use is old and
 > I think uses a fair amount of power and I'd like to cut down my
 > electric bill as much as possible.

What version of the WRT-54G? If it's version 4 or earlier, you could 
install OpenWRT or DDWRT on it. There is "micro" version of DDWRT that 
works on some of the later revisions, but it doesn't include ssh.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Linksys/WRT54G

-Brian