[Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers

[Allen Brown]

>> From: euglug-bounces at euglug.org
>> [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.

Port-forwarding works well under Tomato.  And it has QoS, but I
didn't really evaluate that.

Tomato also has triggered port forwarding.  I was hoping that
was the same as port knocking.  But I couldn't get it to do
what I wanted.  Could be I just don't understand the purpose.

> 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.

I don't know the name DNSMasq, but the behaviour you describe
is done by Tomato also.  Very nice!
-- 
Allen Brown
http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown