[clue] open source router firmwares
Jim Ockers
ockers at ockers.net
Sat Mar 2 12:06:35 MST 2013
Hi Mike,
I've used both OpenWRT and dd-wrt. The OpenWRT was very customizeable
and we used it to make a custom ARM firmware for a networked industrial
device. This was a high power ARM5 system with 600MHz CPU, 16MB flash,
and 64MB of RAM, so we had a lot of room to add custom software &
functionality. The firmware I built wound up being about 8.5MB in size.
I also had an old Linksys router that for some reason quit working the
way I expected (I don't remember what the problem was, but it had to do
with wireless & authentication I think). Before I threw it away I
checked if it was on the openwrt/ddwrt compatibility lists, and I
decided to try putting dd-wrt on it and see if it started working again.
It did. Everything worked perfectly again. I was REALLY impressed with
dd-wrt. It was amazing how much functionality and how many features
they crammed into something like 2MB of flash. dd-wrt seemed like it was
100x more powerful than the old Linksys firmware. I highly recommend
it. Given the hardware limitations of my router there isn't a lot of
room to tinker with it like I did with OpenWRT, but the software
out-of-the-box was powerful & flexible enough to do whatever I needed
without my having to rebuild it.
Give it a try, you'll probably like it.
Jim
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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/
On 3/2/13 6:42 AM, Mike Bean wrote:
> Brief question. I burned out another router it seems, but before I
> toss it in the garbage, I thought I'd try out one of the FOSS router
> firmwares. Thought I'd ask if anyone has experience with them and
> could make any recommendations what gets the like, what doesn't? Just
> based on the 2 min research it looks like ddwrt's probably the way to
> go, but I'd be interested in other options if there are better ones.
>
> Mike
>
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