Turning The SEGA Dreamcast Into A Linux Router 35
An anonymous reader writes "This highly detailed 101-page how-to article provides the necessary background and procedures to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities. The article explains how to create the necessary toolchain for compiling both programs and the Linux kernel, and shows how, starting from scratch, you can build a Linux operating system that runs entirely in memory."
Broadband Adapter (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Broadband Adapter (Score:3, Interesting)
Too bad they're so freaking expensive.
Re:Broadband Adapter (Score:5, Informative)
Sometimes you can find a LAN adaptor (model number HIT-300) that doesn't work with released games and needs a slightly different driver. That'll work for ya too.
http://www.lik-sang.com/ seems to occasionally get both varieties in stock, if you don't like ebay.
If course, if you just want to program the thing you can put together a PCdreamcast serial cable for 15 bucks or so.
Re:Broadband Adapter (Score:2)
Geek factor man, geek factor....
Re:My Dreamcast mod (Score:2)
Re:Broadband Adapter (Score:2)
That's not an article... (Score:3, Funny)
you got it backwards! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:you got it backwards! (Score:2)
I hear it's slated for release on freshmeat next week..
Dang, a few days too late. (Score:1)
Re:Dang, a few days too late. (Score:2)
Router? (Score:5, Insightful)
I have a Broadband adapter.
The Broadband adapter's plugged into the Dreamcast-- and there's no place to plug in another one.
Seems to me that a router with only one ethernet port is kinda limited in functionality...
-JDF
Re:Router? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Router? (Score:1)
Re:Router? (Score:4, Informative)
That is why this router has a VPN built-in.
The idea being that you connect all your computers in a flat LAN configuration, with your router sitting on the LAN like everything else. Then you configure all your network connected devices besides the router to talk to the router via VPN on private network addresses. You basically then have two different networks running over the same cable; your private VPN that the broadband adapter won't route, because you used private network addresses, and the public IP network that basically only includes your broadband modem and your dreamcast router. The router takes VPN packets and turns them into public IP packets, and the reverse.
Ehh... (Score:1, Troll)
Because more and more, it seems like this has all become a race to see who can do the most useless thing with the most obsolete item, and spend the most amount of time and money doing so.
And then brag to the internet about how their wives left them because of the project.
Easier instructions (Score:2, Funny)
2) Buy linksys/netgear router for ~$35
3) ????
4) Profit!
Re:Easier instructions (Score:2)
"Subtract step 2, $35, from step 1, $50".
Net, $15.
Better idea... (Score:2)
Re:Better idea... (Score:3)
The Dreamcast will run you $30 and the broadband adapter around $100. That's less than half of the Wal-mart special.
As an added bonus, the Dreamcast is small and just plain adorable.
Re:Well... (Score:1)
-David Barak