[dundee] Any OpenWRT afficianados around?

[tompaynter at tdpe.co.uk]

I also had a Dlink Dir-615 from virgin, that I put dd-WRT on and it worked
without fault for about 4 years. It died the other day so I brought just
about the cheapest router from Maplin, in the box was a GPL licence, and
it looks like it is running some form of WRT as standard. Not really
played with it yet as it just worked. If I remember correctly its a
Netgear.





> On 20 March 2014 11:09, Colin Brough <colin.brough at blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Folks
>>
>>
>> I could try and find some hardware that OpenWRT runs on (or dd-WRT?),
>> but there seems a dearth of supported 8 port kit... Would a 4 port
>> router and a 4 port switch hanging off one of the router ports do it
>> for me? How easy is OpenWRT or dd-WRT in practise (to install/setup
>> and to maintain)?
>>
>>  I am with Virgin Media and they gave me a Dlink Dir-615 router. The
> d-link firmware absolutely sucks
>  as it would not allow my server an outbound connection with its internal
> IP address so I switched to  DD-WRT as it supports this router.
> Installation was easy, you download the appropriate file & version and
> installed via the web browser default firmware update. Full instructions
> from the DD-WRT web site.
>
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
>
> The DD-WRT firmware is a dream to use, as it monitors bandwidth, users and
> a host of other things, and it also operates all my internal/external
> servers. I have a Dlink 8-port LAN connecting to one of my router ports
> which serves my main computer and servers, all my internal/external
> servers
> (vm's) use static LAN IP addresses, which is no problem, allowing the
> router to designate DHCP IP addresses to all the other devices (WAN) in
> the
> house, of which there are many. I will never go back to default router
> firmware as they are just diabolically useless.
>
>
>
> --
> Gordon
> www.zubenel.org.uk
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