On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > Whereas openWRT sounds like you may need to role your own iptables > script right off the bat. at least judging from a few posts I've now > read from their mailing list where people seem to be asking the kinds > of iptables questions you might find on that list..
Right, OpenWRT is more of a "do-it-yourself" distro, with a package manager, you install what you want to use and configure it yourself. DD-WRT is more of the "ubuntu-style" router OS, it comes with a bunch of services pre-installed and pre-configured, with a pretty GUI, and you only have to enable or disable them and the defaults are set up for your hardware already. Under the surface, both are very similar, in fact I read that new versions of DD-WRT are going to be developed on top of OpenWRT. Both can be configured via telnet/ssh or via a web GUI. I think that if someone can handle Gentoo, they can definitely handle OpenWRT. I have 3 Buffalo routers (all different models) and I'm using DD-WRT on 2 of them and OpenWRT on the other, though I'm not doing anything particularly complicated on any of them.
