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

[Matt Rideout]

That's a good assessment. Either would be a large improvement any stock 
firmware. To me, it's like asking if you should replace a Windows 
installation with CentOS (DD-WRT) or Debian (OpenWRT).

A deciding factor many cases will be which *wrt supports your AP. I 
haven't seen any stability problems, or noticed a performance difference 
between the two.

Tim Watts wrote, On 07/24/2009 07:45 PM:
> 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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