>I spoke with someone last night who uses DD-WRT on their linksys router. Says it gives him access to a lot of higher-end functionality thats on the router but blocked off on the lowercost models. Cant say i've used it myself.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRTdd-WRT is terrific - I've got a number of clients using it, it's rock-solid.
When discussing alternate firmwares like dd-WRT vs. the stock Linksys/Cisco firmware, it's not so much that the latter "blocks off" certain features, it's more that the former offer more features in the first place. A modern consumer router like the Linksys WRT-54GL is actually a fairly capable computer with a 200MHz MIPS processor, 16MB RAM and 4MB flash memory for the firmware. The firmware is actually an embedded version of Linux, so the router is really a computer running Linux. Because it's Linux, it's open-source, and various hobbyists have modified it to add functionality. That's why there are alternative projects like dd-WRT, Tomato etc.
Regards. Al
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