[ale] dd-wrt vs openwrt? (was make dsl modem visible?)

[Richard Bronosky]

I did a lot of research ~1.5 years ago and chose Tomato. I have been
very happy with it. The only thing that it lacked was knockd, which I
strongly recommend to anyone who wants remote access.

On 7/24/09, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Cool. So now, shifting the discussion a little:
>
> How do folks weigh in on linux-based router firmware distros? From my *very*
> preliminary investigation, openwrt looks to have more flexible packaging but
> perhaps at the cost of ease-of-use? DD-wrt might be easier to get my feet
> wet
> with but locks out some features (which I may never need) until I pay. But
> what about:
>
> - Stability?
> - Memory requirements?
> - Quality of wireless support?
> - Active community?
>
> Any other good linux-based options out there?
>
>
>
> On Friday 24 July 2009 5:23:14 pm Jason Fritcher wrote:
>> I'm not sure about the GUI tools, but I had to ssh into the router to
>> set everything up. If you go the DD-WRT route, try this page, it is
>> what I used for my initial setup.
>>
>> https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_To_Modem_Configuration
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
>> > OK, so on JK's reasonable theory that my linksys is stuck on serving
>> > 192.168.1.0 to lan clients, I reconfigured the modem as 192.168.3.1.
>> > Still no
>> > go. Tried pinging it from the router and workstation -- not
>> > reachable. Tried
>> > adding a static route to that net on the router -- not reachable. It
>> > seems
>> > that any route I try to add on the router that goes thru the WAN
>> > interface
>> > gets silently rejected. So I think what Jason mentions is what I'll
>> > have to
>> > do. I'm going to explore dd-wrt vs openwrt.
>> >
>> > Thanks folks!
>> >
>> > On Friday 24 July 2009 1:28:32 pm Jason Fritcher wrote:
>> >> I set this up on my wrt54gs a while ago. With the stock firmware, I
>> >> could not find a way to do this. I changed the router to DD-WRT,
>> >> and I
>> >> was able to put a 192.168.1.x address on the WAN port, add a route on
>> >> the router so that 192.168.1.x bypassed the pppoe tunnel and was
>> >> routed directly out the WAN port, and add a static router to the
>> >> modem
>> >> so that it could communicate back. My internal LAN is on the
>> >> 192.168.0.x subnet.
>> >>
>> >> I don't have that modem any more, so I can't offer up my config as an
>> >> example.
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
>> >>> On Friday 24 July 2009 12:31:47 pm JK wrote:
>> >>>> However, I find that even when in bridge mode, my ATT DSL modem
>> >>>> (just
>> >>>> a modem, not a router) still serves up its admin interface on
>> >>>> 192.168.1.254
>> >>>> (or maybe 192.168.1.1, can't remember).  And since the default
>> >>>> route from
>> >>>> my router (a Buffalo Airstation running Tomato, but that's not
>> >>>> relevant)
>> >>>> goes through the modem, and since my LAN is on a distinct subnet
>> >>>> from
>> >>>> the modem (192.168.80.0/24), I have no problem hitting the modem's
>> >>>> admin interface from machines on my LAN.
>> >>>
>> >>> OK, so sounds like you're saying I might be able to reach it if I
>> >>> put the
>> >>> modem and lan on distinct subnets? So if my lan is 192.168.2.0 (it
>> >>> is) and I
>> >>> put the modem on 192.168.1.0, then would I need to add a static
>> >>> route to it on
>> >>> the router? And/Or on all my lan nodes?
>> >>>
>> >>>> Tim's problem may lie in the fact that practically everything in
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> consumer-router world comes pre-configured to serve 192.168.1.0
>> >>>> addresses to LAN clients.  Changing the LAN subnet in the router
>> >>>> config might be all that's necessary.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -- JK
>> >>>>
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