I plan on playing about with openwrt (http://openwrt.org/) at some point in the near future (most likely buying a linksys router)
Anyone have any experience with it / input on how you've used it?
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Re: OpenWrt
Was going to install it on my WRT54GL and my RTP300. Decided that dd-wrt would work for my WRT54GL and I eventually gave someone my RTP300 (no custom firmware, support in openwrt was alpha).
I decided to use dd-wrt because it's really easy to setup and allows you to SSH and use it's package manager (same one as openwrt - ipkg)/whatever you need. OpenWrt takes a while to set-up and doesn't provide a nice web interface (you can get one for it, though). dd-wrt installs easily, has a lot of options, etc. I would only suggest OpenWrt if you are going to be messing with the internals of the Linux system heavily, to the point that it would be easier to "build it from base" rather than modify a good starting point.
tldr; I didn't have the time to install or maintain OpenWrt so I installed dd-wrt and it worked well.
I decided to use dd-wrt because it's really easy to setup and allows you to SSH and use it's package manager (same one as openwrt - ipkg)/whatever you need. OpenWrt takes a while to set-up and doesn't provide a nice web interface (you can get one for it, though). dd-wrt installs easily, has a lot of options, etc. I would only suggest OpenWrt if you are going to be messing with the internals of the Linux system heavily, to the point that it would be easier to "build it from base" rather than modify a good starting point.
tldr; I didn't have the time to install or maintain OpenWrt so I installed dd-wrt and it worked well.
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Thanks mate,Dr. Suess wrote:Was going to install it on my WRT54GL and my RTP300. Decided that dd-wrt would work for my WRT54GL and I eventually gave someone my RTP300 (no custom firmware, support in openwrt was alpha).
I decided to use dd-wrt because it's really easy to setup and allows you to SSH and use it's package manager (same one as openwrt - ipkg)/whatever you need. OpenWrt takes a while to set-up and doesn't provide a nice web interface (you can get one for it, though). dd-wrt installs easily, has a lot of options, etc. I would only suggest OpenWrt if you are going to be messing with the internals of the Linux system heavily, to the point that it would be easier to "build it from base" rather than modify a good starting point.
tldr; I didn't have the time to install or maintain OpenWrt so I installed dd-wrt and it worked well.
Didn't even know about dd-wrt, reading through their forum just now.
Time isn't really an issue (probably a mid to long term 'project' to amuse me whilst i'm off work)so I may end up experimenting with both.
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How'd that work out for you, Telecontar? I'm thinking about busting out some money for a new router and might give OpenWRT a spin.
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