[Commotion-dev] What would you do with the USB port on your Commotion access point?

[Dan Staples]

A USRP for OpenBTS! Although I doubt a router has the processing power
needed to encode voice data and the like... A HackRF would also be a
great peripheral to use once those are publicly available:
http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-hackrf.html.

I currently have a router with a USB port, that I run DD-WRT on. I have
a 250GB HDD plugged into it, which I use for automated backups of a
website I run, plus a SFTP server. A USB port was a deciding factor in
the router I decided to buy...It's an ASUS WL-520GU. But I could also
see a 3G dongle as a big appeal for a USB port.

Another idea is to use a USB drive as a crypto device. Insert the USB
flash drive to unlock a keyring or some private key material. That would
be an easy way to deploy multiple routers on a network that need to use
a common encryption key(s).

Dan

On Wed 23 Jan 2013 03:46:25 AM EST, Christian Huldt wrote:
>
> Ben West skrev 2013-01-22 22:15:
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>>
>> What could this USB port do for you?
>>
>> - Filesystem for squid proxy? (Probably not very practical)
>> - 3G/4G modem for Internet gateway?
>> - USB sound adapter for streaming MP3 applications?
>> - Control this desktop rocket launcher
>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8a0f/ ?
>
>
> 3G/4G modem and/or a tellstick to control some equipment
> http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick
>
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