[tor-talk] Tor Router

[Aplin, Justin M]

On 5/4/2011 5:08 AM, James Brown wrote:
> I learn that arcticle
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/Torouter
> and have now some questions:
> 1) There are only some hardware platforms indicated in that article.
> Where I can see what other hardware platforms compatible with Tor Router
> software?
> 2) Are there "Asus WL-500GPv2" and "Asus WL-520GU"  in that list?

Odds are, if it's not listed on the page, it hasn't been tested. OpenWRT 
should support your devices [1], so once that's installed the easiest 
thing you could do is try to install the package and see what happens. 
If it doesn't work, it doesn't work; at least, not without a fair bit of 
tweaking and recompiling on your part.

> 3) As I see from that article. the dd-wrt is used for installing an
> openwrt image of Tor-router. What is the problem in tuning dd-wrt itself
> for tor routing?

I've never used DD-WRT, but off the top of my head I would say it's 
because OpenWRT has a persistent file system and a package manager, 
whereas DD-WRT doesn't (which makes installation a pain in the ass, and 
you'd lose your Tor install with every reboot).

[1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start#asus

~Justin Aplin