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Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jul 2005</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Dec 2005</CiteTitle>.
Hints and tips for managing Linksys
routers from a Linux system, including the firmware upgrade procedure. </Para>
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Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jul 2005</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Dec 2005</CiteTitle>.
Hints and tips for managing Linksys
routers from a Linux system, including the firmware upgrade procedure. </Para>
</ListItem>

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Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jul 2005</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Dec 2005</CiteTitle>.
Hints and tips for managing Linksys
routers from a Linux system, including the firmware upgrade procedure. </Para>
</ListItem>

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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://docbook.org/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY howto "http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/">
<!ENTITY mini-howto "http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/">
<!ENTITY home "http://www.catb.org/~esr/">
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</author>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.2</revnumber>
<date>2005-12-01</date>
<authorinitials>esr</authorinitials>
<revremark>
Removed the suggestion that Cisco be boycotted over the Lynn
firing, as the lawsuit seems to have been settled on satisfactory
terms. Added advice to get the WRTG54l.
</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.1</revnumber>
<date>2005-07-28</date>
@ -99,16 +109,6 @@
<abstract>
<para><emphasis role='strong'>On 28 July 2005, Cisco initiated a lawsuit
against Michael Flynn, who was not and had never been a Cisco employee, over
his disclosure of long-standing, uncorrected flaws in Cisco router
software. Cisco has made clear that it prefers shooting the messenger to
fixing its software. I am accordingly recommending that all Cisco equipment
&mdash; including Linksys routers &mdash; be boycotted until the company
drops its lawsuit, compensates Mr Lynn for any costs incurred, and
publicly apologizes for its sleazy, destructive, and unethical
behavior.</emphasis></para>
<para>Linksys makes a line of cheap, ubiquitous router/firewall boxes
(models BEFSR41 and up, including the WRT54G) well-suited for use on a home
DSL connection and popular among Linux hackers. This HOWTO gives hints and
@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ writing (January 2005) the current Linksys firmware version is v.3.01.3.
enabling WEP on this version makes the box unable to talk to a Linux
machine over a cable.</para>
<para>Also note that if you go looking for one of these now, be sure to get
the WRT54GL &mdash; note the L suffix. At Version 5 and up, the vanilla
WRT54G is different hardware with less RAM that runs a propriatary
VxWorks OS.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="newversions"><title>New versions of this document</title>