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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
I would be interested in hearing in what way it might be more capable post-flashing though and maybe others may be too.
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I'm no guru on DD-WRT and I haven't installed some of the more advanced options like VPN hosting, but I do have one old 54GL as a WAP and have another I'm going to set up as a repeater bridge, used the QOS rules, altered the antenna strengths for what seems to give the best throughput, used DNSmasq for my internal network and DHCP, plus a few other things. Most useful has been installing
Optware The Right Way by a guy called frater. The link gives a list of what OTRW can do, and for a general quick list of features why don't you start with
this.
I've got OTRW installed on an 8GB USB stick plugged into a Linksys 610N v2 and a couple of the more useful functions are the virtually unlimited log saves to disk (rather than being limited to RAM) and the nightly firmware backups to disk (so I don't have to re-enter all the options any time I change/update the firmware). The pixelserv (ad blocking), stop hack, stop hammer and Asiablock (intrusion detection/prevention) scripts are also prime reasons for installing OTRW. I used to have my SSL access on the standard port and it was interesting to see the logs of the hackers trying to get in every five minutes or so. They wouldn't, I use an RSA keyfile for access, but OTRW can block and/or log them for you if you want. (you can send the log files to their ISP's if they're in a jurisdiction that gives a damn - don't bother with the Chinese attempts though
)
The combination of DD-WRT and OTRW is something I recommend, not just for functionality but also because it shows what OSS and
not limiting access to and use of shared knowledge can create.