I'll probably stick to the well worn documentation trail of DD-WRT, but
there's Tomato mentioned a second time.  I'll need to look into that.

Brian


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:51 PM, silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:>
>
> > I'm curious which of the DD-WRT specific features people
> > find most useful.... What else?
> >
> > I've found that if you enable remote admin and don't bother
> > changing the password, there are a lot of helpful people on the
> internet that will help you configure it...
>
>
> And add to that most people don't disable UPNP management in router
> config.
> Linksky and firmware developers should make it so UPNP is disabled out of
> the box. But then newbies could not use the "easy button" to set-up. So
> security takes a back seat for ease of installation.
>
> As Ben stated linksysinfo.org has resources and firmware comparisons,
> descriptions of hardware diffs and pros and cons, and articles listing
> serial numbers and hardware version numbers to help identify specific
> hardware characteristics (you need to know to select third party
> firmware).
>
> See the "firmware tracker" article for resources regarding third party
> firmware support.
>
> Note the site is not updated as often as it once was so the firmware
> listings not very up-to-date. (since Jim Depew days) . Downloads area is
> temporarily down.  No new articles, reviews or tutorials of recent
> vintage.
>
> Since the start of the year almost all of the sites news is Cisco
> marketing
> press releases. Besides a few mentions of Tomato firmware, not much news
> about firmware releases
>
> A little tweedy bird told me Cisco took some control away from original
> site
> owners in return for site owner to continue to use the "linksys" brand in
> their domain name (they retain all the Google and Amazon ad revenue but
> can't say anything negative about Linksys or they lose the domain name).
> Will need to ask Simon about that.
>
> Anyway there is always the forums.
> http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/index.php
>
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