The chances of bricking the router are pretty low. You'd pretty much have to lose power in the middle of the actual flash (doesn't mean it has never happened). I've installed DD-WRT on just about every linksys router I've had (including two WRT54GL routers). Currently, I'm running it on a WRT610N.
Installing DD-WRT is the first thing I do to a new Cisco/Linksys home router when I take it out of the box. I think you'll much prefer the control it gives you over your equipment. Another option is to throw together a cheap linux box and install a firewall/router distro like ipcop, ipfire, brazilfw.. (and many others). You could also run a normal distro and use something like firewall builder to make it a firewall/router. The benefit of moving up to a linux distro from DD-WRT is even more control and the ability to install many different packages (like a proxy server) ipfire is an iptables based firewall distro (forked from ipcop and debian based)... it has a TON of addons all tested and ready to be installed right from the web interface. Add-ons list: http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/addons/start these distros are tiny and typically run on anything you have laying around. Some of them are small enough to fit on a single floppy disk and run entirely from RAM. So that's my linux firewall spiel. Cheers .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 3:07 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: TOT - Forwarding port 80 to two machines with a home Router -- Linksys WRT54GL Than you all for your response. I tried reverse proxy ala mod proxy and that works. Sort of. If the site uses URLs that includes the host name. One of the apps that I use a lot, Word press, uses the host name in the URL.. and the whole reverse proxy thing goes down the shi... err drain. That and Trac throws a fit when I try to authenticate while going through the proxy I am aware of the Linux firmware for the router, but I was hoping there was another way to do this for fear of bricking it. Thanx G! On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Look into the DD-WRT firmware for that router...it basically turns in into > a > linux box as Jochem was talking about... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:joch...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 5:26 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: TOT - Forwarding port 80 to two machines with a home Router -- > Linksys WRT54GL > > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Gerald Guido wrote: > > I have two servers @ home that I want to use for hosting hobby sites. > > One runs Win 08 server and the other Linux (CentOS). My router ( > > Linksys > > WRT54GL) does port forwarding but I want to have port 80 point to both > > machines based on the domain. > > Did you upgrade your router to run an open souce Linux or are you running > the original Linksys firmware? > > Jochem > > > -- > Jochem van Dieten > http://jochem.vandieten.net/ > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349052 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
