pfarrell;381136 Wrote: > mewzshn wrote: > > OK - What is DD-WRT? > > DD-WRT (and Tomato) are free, open source alternative firmware. > Either are highly recommended. >
And as a side note: many if not most router manufacturers suck at updating their firmware. It is easier and cheaper for them to tell you to buy a new one. Combine this with the very low resources of a typical router, and things like a memory leak can be cripple you eventually. (The router will run out of memory for connection tracking, which it needs for address translation.) My POS router worked fine until I hid a web server behind it, then it died every few minutes. My Mother-in-laws router stays up for months. unless she has company staying with her, when it will die every day or two. (When routers die, they tend to die in bizarre ways.. I could ssh from work to a machine at home just fine.. but I couldn't ssh from home to work... and I couldn't even bring up the router's web page to reboot it, it would drop half the packets.) The WRT54G series is very highly respected, but part of that may be the success of DD-WRT. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57871 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
