Hi, OpenWRT is a good choice for router, especially for wifi router.
It is the only choice for firewall/router running in PV XEN domain. I mean if you like to use purpose-designed distro. It is stable enough to be a good replacement for manufacturer firmware. I've recently flushed my TP-Link WR941ND with self-compiled OpenWRT because of unstable UPNP. router box itself is a good replacement for x86-based router, because of small size and silent operations and also low power consumption (== long live on ups) WR941ND is fast enough: 80mbps trough NAT on wire, 40-56mbps on wifi. this is file download speed so the raw troughput must be 10-20% bigger. In the same time I can see some disadvantages: 1) it is not easy to flash a TP-Link. I was not able to do it without serial console. I've spent about 2 days compiling, flashing, configuring, re-flashing, recovering, re-configuring and so on. 2) you need a 8GB-of-flash version to embed OpenVPN. 3) OpenWRT is not well-tested on AR913 platform. So you can get it bricked with incorrect parameters set by web gui. 4) no usb port means no http cache. I did not use a default OpenWRT gui so I would not say is it good or not. I'm always using LuCI. It powerfull enoug to satisfy all my day-to-day firewalling-forwarding-shaping requirements. Hope that helps. With best regards, Daniel Podolsky On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very familiar and comfortable with Gentoo Linux and I've set up > several router/firewall/AP Gentoo systems. I need to move my internet > connection across the room wirelessly so I thought I would buy a > TP-Link router and set up OpenWRT instead of building and maintaining > another Gentoo system. I'm wondering if I've made the wrong choice > and I would appreciate your advice. > > Should I stick with a distro I know or learn OpenWRT? I chose Gentoo > as my distro many years ago because its flexible and I want to avoid > learning multiple distros. On the other hand, each Gentoo system I > administrate costs time and energy dealing with both software and > hardware problems. Am I better off with those problems or with the > problem of learning and maintaining my knowledge of another distro > just for a router? > > - Grant > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users > _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
