On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, John Stoffel wrote:
Phil> If anyone's looking, I'm very happy with a Netgear WNDR3800
Phil> running openWRT; the vendor uses open Linux firmwares by default
Phil> and make it easy to replace the firmware entirely, the unit
Phil> chosen has plenty of RAM, is simultaneous dual-band with
Phil> multiple GigE ports, and generally just works. With openWRT,
Phil> I've got an IPv6 SixXS heart-beat tunnel running and Unbound as
Phil> the DNS resolver, so I have a DNSSEC validating resolver between
Phil> my home network and the world.
I've got a slightly older WNDR3700v2 which I used to have DD-WRT
running on, which I liked because it gave me the dual band, plus it
replacement my ancient Wrap board running m0n0wall as the Firewall.
But I *hated* how DNS for internal hosts was handled. I tried
ungrading to a newer version of DD-WRT which was a disaster. It
bricked the damn thing and since I was in a rush, I put the m0n0wall
back in place, and hey, my performance was better!
Just trying to figure out which version of DD-WRT, and where to find
it, and how to upgrade it was a damn pain too. And looking through
the TomatoUSB stuff doesn't make me any happier.
So I've been looking at OpenWRT, but it too is so badly organized that
it's hard to find out which version is supported (or even just
available!) for which hardware and what the gotchas are. We all do
stuff like this for a living, but there are times when I do want to
have something simpler to setup and which won't impact my family when
I'm screwing around. Work writ small I guess. I can burn my own
house down and fix it, but when I burn down the house while the wife
is working on her stuff, it's a five alarm blaze!
Sorry, just had to get this all off my chest.
The good news is that OpenWRT is nearing making a formal release after
far, far too much time where the old release just isn't able to run on
most devices. They are planning to make much more frequent releases after
this to avoid this problem in the future.
I use the WNDR3700v2 and WNDR3800 routers to run the wireless at SCaLE
with OpenWRT and they work very well for me. I tested with the 'trunk'
nightly build and ended up compiling and building my own image.
I ran DD-WRT on the access points a couple of years ago and wasn't really
happy with it. If you want to do things the way DD-WRT decided makes
sense, it's easy to do things. If you want to do anything a little
different it's rather hard.
OpwnWRT by comparison is like a linux distro, they set things up by
default, but if you want to do something different you just edit the
config files, or install a different package.
David Lang
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