Hi Eric,
I've done a lot of work making openwrt based hotspot networks in the past. ddwrt is useful, but there's a couple of issues that come to mind.
Firstly with ddwrt using openvpn you'd have to make changes to mirrorshades to support openvpn and do you really need the overhead of encryption?
Secondly with ddwrt the ability to tune to the ham band is only possible by using a paid for version that has 'superchannel' functionality.
It should be fairly simple to create an openwrt image that sets up an unencrypted tunnel to mirrorshades, however I've never toyed with setting odd frequencies on them. Also given that you wouldn't have unused packages installed you could use the space to install something amateur radio related.
Finally how would you stop non-ham access?
-Max G7UOZ.
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 12:00 -0700, 44net-request@hamradio.ucsd.edu wrote:
Has anyone used ddwrt, especially the vpn version to setup a tunnel to ucsd
then run rip to get routing announcements? just sounds like a neat low cost way to get a gateway running. This would be trivial if one could run openvpn to mirrorshades.
Eric AF6EP