On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Dana Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
So at minimum you can read this as a request for a good, affordable
consumer grade wireless ap that has better than consumer management
capabilities, including perhaps ability to allow command line shell access
to view logs, perhaps forward logs off the device, and so on.
Asus and Buffalo have models with DD-WRT preloaded. I paid ~$100 for a dual
band Buffalo with DD-WRT and enabled ssh access with key. You can also
configure remote logging via syslog.
(One common thing I've encountered with the low end commodity APs is they
have tiny NAT port ranges and regularly drop NAT mappings and the
corresponding connections as a result --- modern desktop OSes and even
Android/iOS phones/tablets can saturate low end NAT tables with a single
device.)
If you are running *wrt on them, then you have the full power of the linux
kernel, so NAT tables filling up is a config option away.
My experience is that DD-WRT is really designed to be a home AP, and if you just
use it as that, it's better then the proprietary firmware, But it really isn't
designed for you to use it as a Linux system (it had a 'registry' type config
rather than config files, and was limited in what you could install)
OpenWRT is basically a full blown Linux system, with almost all the tools
available that you could put on any other system. It's configs are a bit
different than other distros, but they are simple config files (with a web UI
available to manipulate them), so it works better for running other stuff.
The only problem you are going to have on these systems is that they don't have
a lot of CPU power, which can limit how much you can do before running out of
CPU
David Lang
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