{"id":60,"date":"2004-09-30T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:06:39","slug":"linksys-nslu2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/linksys-nslu2\/","title":{"rendered":"Linksys NSLU2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/\">Linksys<\/a> recently released a &#8220;network storage link&#8221; called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/products\/product.asp?grid=35&amp;scid=43&amp;prid=640\">NSLU2<\/a>. Basically it&#8217;s a box that you can plug in up to two external USB 2.0 drives and it serves them out NAS style. The box is running a stripped down version of Linux, which gives hackers interesting opportunities to customize the NAS to do other things such as acting as a CVS server, a print server, or an iTunes music server for Airport Express devices.<\/p>\n<p>I already have a file server here at the home office, but if I didn&#8217;t, this product looks pretty cool.  $80 for an embedded Linux box is pretty cheap, and it has a reasonable 32Mb of RAM to work with.  If you&#8217;re interested in reading more about hacking it, check out the 4 part series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomsnetworking.com\/Sections-article85.php\">Hacking the Linksys NSLU2<\/a> over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\">Toms Hardware<\/a>. Also, check out the page Jim Buzbee (the author of the articles) dedicated to his hacking attempts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batbox.org\/nslu2-linux.html\">here<\/a>. He has some interesting dmesg and \/proc listings displayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Linksys recently released a &#8220;network storage link&#8221; called the NSLU2. Basically it&#8217;s a box that you can plug in up to two external USB 2.0 drives and it serves them out NAS style. The box is running a stripped down version of Linux, which gives hackers interesting opportunities to customize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}