Posts: Dd-Wrt

Trying out DD-WRT

Past Christmas I bought a Linksys WRT54GSv4 router to improve wireless access to my home network. Of course, I’d have bought an access point, but I also wanted to replace most of my home server/router functionality with this little device so that I could eventually remove the server box. Therefore it had to provide: NAT. Firewalling. Port redirection. A dynamic DHCP server. Ability to configure DHCP static entries (used for servers within the network). A local DNS server to resolve names for local machines. The first four items were all provided by the official firmware but unfortunately not the last two. However, if I chose that specific model was because it could easily be flashed using OpenWRT or DD-WRT, both of which allow to set up those services by using, e.g. Dnsmasq.

September 21, 2006 · Tags: <a href="/tags/dd-wrt">dd-wrt</a>, <a href="/tags/linksys">linksys</a>, <a href="/tags/router">router</a>
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