Phil> If anyone's looking, I'm very happy with a Netgear WNDR3800 Phil> running openWRT; the vendor uses open Linux firmwares by default Phil> and make it easy to replace the firmware entirely, the unit Phil> chosen has plenty of RAM, is simultaneous dual-band with Phil> multiple GigE ports, and generally just works. With openWRT, Phil> I've got an IPv6 SixXS heart-beat tunnel running and Unbound as Phil> the DNS resolver, so I have a DNSSEC validating resolver between Phil> my home network and the world.
I've got a slightly older WNDR3700v2 which I used to have DD-WRT running on, which I liked because it gave me the dual band, plus it replacement my ancient Wrap board running m0n0wall as the Firewall. But I *hated* how DNS for internal hosts was handled. I tried ungrading to a newer version of DD-WRT which was a disaster. It bricked the damn thing and since I was in a rush, I put the m0n0wall back in place, and hey, my performance was better! Just trying to figure out which version of DD-WRT, and where to find it, and how to upgrade it was a damn pain too. And looking through the TomatoUSB stuff doesn't make me any happier. So I've been looking at OpenWRT, but it too is so badly organized that it's hard to find out which version is supported (or even just available!) for which hardware and what the gotchas are. We all do stuff like this for a living, but there are times when I do want to have something simpler to setup and which won't impact my family when I'm screwing around. Work writ small I guess. I can burn my own house down and fix it, but when I burn down the house while the wife is working on her stuff, it's a five alarm blaze! Sorry, just had to get this all off my chest. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
