[Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers

[Jason LaPier]

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> [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On Behalf Of kevin at k2dd.com
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 2:00 PM
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers
> 
> I've had no problems with my WRT54G on the linksys firmware.
> 
> I'm curious which of the DD-WRT specific features people find 
> most useful. Hal likes RADIUS. Someone else wanted static IPs 
> (though I think Tomato was selected for that). What else?


I've had my WRT54GL for a little over a week now. I installed DD-WRT as
soon as I took it out of the box, so I don't know what the linksys
firmware has to offer (hey, I didn't buy the famously hackable wifi
router so I could use it as-is). 

There are a ridiculous number of options on this thing. I definitely
cranked up the juice on mine to 70mW (they claim 70mW is still safe from
burning your router). There are a lot of cool QoS settings, and if I get
around to it I think I'll look at throttling P2P traffic to see how that
works out. Also on my to-do list is to set up various linux-based
dedicated game servers (NWN, UT2k4, TF2, ET:QW) and see how that goes.
My previous experiences with my old router were usually pretty
frustrating with the port-forwarding and whatnot and I'd end up putting
the server in the DMZ just to get a game server online. 

DD-WRT also has DNSMasq, which will take your DHCP clients and put them
in a DNS table. This feature saved me a ton of headache because my house
has quite a few boxes and being able to get to them all by name without
looking up (or hardcoding) IP addresses is very nice. 


- Jason L.