I do not have a router capable of running open-wrt, but i have a spare computer that I can use...
I tried searching the forums, google, and the wiki but couldn't come up with anything...

Is this possible?

Thanks!

I don't believe so because the image files or .bin files are made specifically for certain types of routers to take advantage of their hardware.  If your computer doesn't have the same chipset, lights to blink or ports to use than you won't get the full functionality out of openwrt anyway.

there's numerous packages that depend on the architecture of the router in question.

White Russsian cannot be installed on anything but routers based on the Broadcom 47xx/53xx platforms.  Kamikaze supports many more platforms including x86.

That port is mainly aimed at embedded x86 routers, but can run on computers too.  Keep in mind that you'll probably have to build your own images (which requires Linux) with the proper drivers as your computer probably doesn't have the same hardware as the embedded routers currently targeted.  Also keep in mind that VGA (monitor) support is disabled; it was working a while back, but was disabled in the move to the 2.6.21 kernel because it caused problems.

As with other installs, the serial console works, and so does ssh (though you have to use telnet until you set a root password.)  The images produced by the OpenWrt build system can be copied directly to a harddrive with dd, for example:

dd if=openwrt-x86-2.6-ext2.image of=/dev/hdX

Note: dd can be quite dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, wiping a harddrive is as simple as giving the wrong device node.  /dev/hdX is used as the example because it is up to you to figure out what the proper device node is.

(Last edited by Bartman007 on 10 Aug 2007, 18:42)

You may want to try one of smoothwall: http://www.smoothwall.org/ ipcop: http://ipcop.org/ or m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ all of which are designed for using standard PC hardware as a router and firewall. These may be more suitable for your purpose. Good luck.

Hey, thanks for the replies...

I'm currently running IPCop, and I do love it... The only problem I have with it is that it is not based on the 2.6 kernel and does not have IPv6.
I'm not sure if smoothwall or m0n0wall does...
I was also interested in testing this out.
Thanks again for the replies.