Hi Ralph
On 17/12/12 19:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
I want an ADSL wi-fi router that has either already got good
command-line access for monitoring and control or is well-supported by
one of the distros that target these boxes, e.g. OpenWRT. (My current
old white-box model has an SSH-login to a Linux but is otherwise so
crippled little can be done when you wonder why the line has dropped
again.)
Any recommendations? Ideally from those who've been there and have the
scars. :-)
Well the de-facto platform for these open distros is the Linksys
WRT54GL, although this does not have an ADSL modem, so you'd need
something separate for that. I have a couple of these with DD-WRT
installed. The biggest problem with this is the multitude of versions
and large amount of (sometimes contradictory) documentation. I've had
one device running DD-WRT v24 as a repeater-bridge, with another
repeater between it and the base-router, for 4+ years - rock-solid. But
to give some ideas of the vagaries of DD-WRT, I bought a second WRT54GL,
loaded it up with DD-WRT SP1 and it was decidedly flakey (identical
settings to the first). To date I haven't pursued tracking down the
precise reason why.
Of course there's also OpenWRT and Tomato.
In terms of ADSL routers, I've stuck with Draytek and been very happy
with them. I have a 2820 wireless ADSL router but have never SSH'ed into
it so don't really know what's available. I occasionally Telnet into an
older 2600 but really just to reboot it if necessary. The Drayteks have
VPN built in which is nice if you need it. The 2820 also has a pretty
rich feature set accessible through its UI (LAN-to_LAN VPN, bandwidth
management, multiple SSID's with individually-configurable security,
comprehensive filtering, data flow monitoring - all of which I've used
extensively).
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Tim
Cheers, Ralph.
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