I've been using OpenWRT <https://openwrt.org/>, though, and I've been a little lax on installing updates. I should either check out the features of the latest version, or I should try another product.
OpenWRT was once based upon Debian, though it has evolved in to something unique. I picked it long ago now and at this point for reasons I can no longer remember. I do like configuring it completely through an SSH session and using the same firewall product on my router as I use for the rest of my systems. (I am a fan of Shorewall.)
It looks like DD-WRT is completely web-based?
I can't find any list of reasons why I would use DD-WRT in preference to another Linux-based product. Does anyone know of such a list?
Is DD-WRT purely prepackaged or does it have a package management system?
I like package management systems. Had I ever been a fan of RPM-based distros, I may be more fond of letting someone else making all my package choices, but being from a DEB-based background, I like to have choices.
It looks like there are a number of derivatives to OpenWRT at this point, too. I'm not sure if that's a good sign or a bad sign, though.
Cheers,
Steven Black
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Kelly McEvilly <kellym@wbhcp.com> wrote:
I like that idea. I had a h*ll of a time config'ing iptables on a dual ssid dd-wrt wrt54g and could really use the practice!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Krenz" <mark@slugbug.org>
To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2011 10:04:08 AM
Subject: Re: [BLUG] Att dslOn Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:32:44AM GMT, Kelly McEvilly [kellym@wbhcp.com] said the following:
>
> Sadly, I have the same crappy Westell modem from Smithville at home. Soon, they are gonna cut a trench across my yard and run fiber to my house and I'm hoping I'll get a serious upgrade in equipment from them when that happens.
Since this is the Linux Users Group, I would suggest that when you get
fiber to the house that you change your router to a Linux router setup
on a low end PC. You should still pick reliable parts, but you can find
some old Pentium 3 or 4 for $50 that you could slap an extra network
card in and be fine. It will be much more reliable and flexible. You
can even use one of the free router/firewall distributions such as
SmoothWall, pfSense, Endian, etc. There are a ton of them. The only
thing is that it'd use more power than one of the home broadband
routers.Smithville basically just gives you an ethernet jack hooked up to
their fiber-ethernet adapter, which you don't have to mess with.
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Bloomington Linux Users Group
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