G'day Nutters, I've just started playing with DD-WRT, and I *love* it.
Got a Linksys WAP54GL from Carrefour (~250Dhs) and a Buffalo WHS-G54s from DG's (~249DHS). The Linksys sits under a desk on site and punches a hole through the corporate firewall (shhhhhh!) using OpenVPN to give me transparent access to my network at home, and the Buffalo has been fitted with a 1GB miniSD card to give it some local storage for me to play with. All in all great little fun linux machines to experiment with! Highly recommended if you have some $$ to play with and the desire to do something fun. With the SD/MMC mod providing extra local storage you can pretty much turn them into a fully fledged linux box with a 200Mhz MIPS processor and 16MB of Ram. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Both boxes have a WAN port and a 4 port switch built in, and with the linksys at least you can re-assign the lan ports to different VLAN's for more flexibility (have not tried with the Buffalo yet), in addition to being able to run virtually separate wireless networks in parallel over the same radio. They work in client mode (hook into your neighbours WIFI, and will also run most common mesh software and WDS. Cheap fun with a bit of power and flexibility behind it. The SD mod is a little tricky if you are not a dab hand with a soldering iron and a dremel, but not terribly difficult to achieve. I finished the Buffalo router last night, but the Linksys has been running for a week now. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
