[ale] dd-wrt vs openwrt? (was make dsl modem visible?)

[Tim Watts]

Cool. So now, shifting the discussion a little:

How do folks weigh in on linux-based router firmware distros? From my *very* 
preliminary investigation, openwrt looks to have more flexible packaging but 
perhaps at the cost of ease-of-use? DD-wrt might be easier to get my feet wet 
with but locks out some features (which I may never need) until I pay. But 
what about:

- Stability?
- Memory requirements?
- Quality of wireless support?
- Active community?

Any other good linux-based options out there?



On Friday 24 July 2009 5:23:14 pm Jason Fritcher wrote:
> I'm not sure about the GUI tools, but I had to ssh into the router to
> set everything up. If you go the DD-WRT route, try this page, it is
> what I used for my initial setup.
>
> https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_To_Modem_Configuration
>
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> > OK, so on JK's reasonable theory that my linksys is stuck on serving
> > 192.168.1.0 to lan clients, I reconfigured the modem as 192.168.3.1.
> > Still no
> > go. Tried pinging it from the router and workstation -- not
> > reachable. Tried
> > adding a static route to that net on the router -- not reachable. It
> > seems
> > that any route I try to add on the router that goes thru the WAN
> > interface
> > gets silently rejected. So I think what Jason mentions is what I'll
> > have to
> > do. I'm going to explore dd-wrt vs openwrt.
> >
> > Thanks folks!
> >
> > On Friday 24 July 2009 1:28:32 pm Jason Fritcher wrote:
> >> I set this up on my wrt54gs a while ago. With the stock firmware, I
> >> could not find a way to do this. I changed the router to DD-WRT,
> >> and I
> >> was able to put a 192.168.1.x address on the WAN port, add a route on
> >> the router so that 192.168.1.x bypassed the pppoe tunnel and was
> >> routed directly out the WAN port, and add a static router to the
> >> modem
> >> so that it could communicate back. My internal LAN is on the
> >> 192.168.0.x subnet.
> >>
> >> I don't have that modem any more, so I can't offer up my config as an
> >> example.
> >>
> >> On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
> >>> On Friday 24 July 2009 12:31:47 pm JK wrote:
> >>>> However, I find that even when in bridge mode, my ATT DSL modem
> >>>> (just
> >>>> a modem, not a router) still serves up its admin interface on
> >>>> 192.168.1.254
> >>>> (or maybe 192.168.1.1, can't remember).  And since the default
> >>>> route from
> >>>> my router (a Buffalo Airstation running Tomato, but that's not
> >>>> relevant)
> >>>> goes through the modem, and since my LAN is on a distinct subnet
> >>>> from
> >>>> the modem (192.168.80.0/24), I have no problem hitting the modem's
> >>>> admin interface from machines on my LAN.
> >>>
> >>> OK, so sounds like you're saying I might be able to reach it if I
> >>> put the
> >>> modem and lan on distinct subnets? So if my lan is 192.168.2.0 (it
> >>> is) and I
> >>> put the modem on 192.168.1.0, then would I need to add a static
> >>> route to it on
> >>> the router? And/Or on all my lan nodes?
> >>>
> >>>> Tim's problem may lie in the fact that practically everything in
> >>>> the
> >>>> consumer-router world comes pre-configured to serve 192.168.1.0
> >>>> addresses to LAN clients.  Changing the LAN subnet in the router
> >>>> config might be all that's necessary.
> >>>>
> >>>> -- JK
> >>>>
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