Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> Whereas openWRT sounds like you may need to role your own iptables >> script right off the bat. at least judging from a few posts I've now >> read from their mailing list where people seem to be asking the kinds >> of iptables questions you might find on that list.. > > Right, OpenWRT is more of a "do-it-yourself" distro, with a package > manager, you install what you want to use and configure it yourself. > DD-WRT is more of the "ubuntu-style" router OS, it comes with a bunch > of services pre-installed and pre-configured, with a pretty GUI, and > you only have to enable or disable them and the defaults are set up > for your hardware already. > > Under the surface, both are very similar, in fact I read that new > versions of DD-WRT are going to be developed on top of OpenWRT. Both > can be configured via telnet/ssh or via a web GUI. > > I think that if someone can handle Gentoo, they can definitely handle > OpenWRT.
What I see is somewhat difficult is learning enough iptables to be competent with it. As I recall from yrs ago it is not that easy to keep from shooting yourself in the foot and ending up hacked or such with iptables. > . . . . . I have 3 Buffalo routers (all different models) and I'm using > DD-WRT on 2 of them and OpenWRT on the other, though I'm not doing > anything particularly complicated on any of them. What I have to do is probably a lot simpler than what you are doing with any of them. Just a home lan router/firewall. But if I had to learn iptables, that throws `simple' right out the door. Are you running iptables on any of them? Does the one using openWRT have a basic firewall in place and some wrapper around iptables to make the creation of rules a bit easier.?
