Looks like Jerry's wish already came true some time ago. Since it
runs Linux, many people have been
hacking the Linksys WRT54G.
Sveasoft's
alternate firmware gives you ssh and a whole lot of other stuff, and
appears to be quite popular. (Googling showed that Cringely
gave it some publicity
recently too.) Apparently there are
other Linux distros
for the blue box too.
At least one guy is sort of
running NoCatSplash from RAM
(but not yet from flash) directly on his WRT54G. I think that's just
the front-end though, I wonder if anyone is also running the back-end
user/password stuff all on the WRT54G.
And now I'm wondering whether anyone's running the back-end all of and
what sort of software it would take to chain two WRT54G's together in
order to intelligently use two WAN connections - good bandwith sharing
and automatic failover between both a cable modem and a DSL
connection, for instance.
