[Tfug] Routers

[Nate]

I would recommend Tomato.  I've used DD-WRT and Sveasoft before, and
they worked ok, but Tomato seems to be more stable, and I like the
interface to it as well, especially the built-in bandwidth graphing. 
Though anything is better than the default image.  So just play around
with each of them and pick whichever you like.

Nate

On 01/31/2009 07:33 PM, Marco Savo wrote:
> I just bought a WRT54G to play with, which open source software do you
> recommend?
> -Oleg
> -DD-WRT
> -Open-wrt
> -tomato
> -x-Wrt
> -Sveasoft
>
> Seem the best is DD-Wrt, do you agree?
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com
> <mailto:bexley401 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Angus,
>
>     > On 22 Jan 2009 at 14:12, Bexley Hall  wrote:
>     >
>     > > Actually, I believe *all* of the WRT54G's are "Linux-powered"
>     > > (or, at the very least, easily reflashed with a Linux kernel)
>     >
>     > Actually the WRT54Gv5 is NOT flashable -- not enough flash
>     > storage (2mb instead of 4mb).
>
>     <frown>  The smaller flash doesn't make it "un-flashable";
>     it just means you can only put smaller images *into* the
>     flash!  ;-)
>
>     Note that much consumer kit is reflashable even though
>     it might not provide a utility to do so (like the "upgrade
>     firmware" screen in the stock 54G's).  But, to do so, you
>     may need to resort to JTAG tools.  This is a bit more involved
>     and usually requires special jigs and/or adding connections
>     to the "main sircuit board" -- since *building* the units with
>     the extra "connector" needlessly adds a few microcents to
>     the product's cost  :-/
>
>     > After they "upgraded" the v4 to the v5,
>     > the dd-wrt people discovered
>     > they could no longer "upgrade" the native OS to
>     > their own distro.  The 54GL was
>     > brought out in response to demand for the older versions
>     > with more RAM as sales
>     > dropped off significantly enough to get Linksys's
>     > attention.
>
>     Ah!  It would be amusing to have been a fly in a hole in
>     the wall when they had *that* "internal discussion"!  :>
>     I'm sure there was pressure from the NIH'ers to move
>     away from a GPL'ed product just to "stick it to 'em".
>     And, another crowd probably pushing to cater even
>     *more* to these "consumers".  It would be interesting to
>     see how big of a market share was impacted and guess
>     at the cost-benefit analysis they must have done...
>
>     > See "Linksys WRT54G series" at Wikipedia for more
>     > info:
>     > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series
>     > It has more than you ever need to know and it also lists
>     > all the different
>     > variants (WRT54G, WRT54GS, WRT54GL, and WRTSL54GS) along
>     > with flashability etc.
>     >
>     > HTH
>
>
>
>
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