[ILUG] OpenWRT or DD-WRT

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Niall O Broin wrote:

> want with the hardware. But in fact, all I really want is an AP 
> with slightly more configurability and it seems that DD-WRT will 
> give me that out of the box, without my having to decide whether or 
> not I want (or need) the X-Wrt web interface.

Well, that's a pretty easy decision for most people.. ;)

One of the nice things about OpenWRT is that it has a package system, 
you can always 'ipkg update; ipkg install ...' after the fact (e.g. 
tcpdump can be pretty useful, though its a large package).

I can't imagine why you wouldn't want OpenWRT:

- very nice web-frontend, with fancy SVG, real-time graphs of CPU,
   network interface usage, etc..
   - but you can leave it out if you'd prefer the extra room to
     install utilities to
- also easy to use from command-line (nice config system)
- easy upgrades (kamikaze+)
- actually advancing the state of open-source, embedded routers,
   rather than leeching..

And yes, it's very configurable, if you want. I don't see how this 
turns into a minus-point though..

But whatever floats your boat ;)

regards,
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