[clue] open source router firmwares

[Mike Bean]

I thought it might be a code issue.  Same thing happened to me about five
or six months back, but I'd lost my job and for reasons which are obvious,
wasn't quite as willing to just get a replacement.  So I fiddled with it
for a while and reset it to factory defaults, and it stabilized out again
up until this week.  I suspect the hardware's fine, it's just getting into
some sort of weird loop condition where it can't hold a connection for more
then a few seconds.  Linksys doesn't have a firmware update for that model,
but I remembered listening to security now, where they mentioned the open
source firmwares as a good alternative (in re the UPnP vulnerability).

Mike


On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:

>  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
>
> --
> 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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