BTW, folks, the default (read, latest!) LinkSys firmware does in fact handle port forwarding, QoS, and a bunch of the other stuff mentioned here as geek requirements :) I know the default firmware is something most of you will spit on... but for the record it is not pure evil IMO. It *does* work well.
all the best, Ben PS - and in regards to the earlier comment about Comcast... I mean hey c'mon, if you were MY customer and violated OUR business agreement I'd leave you right away. I'm pretty sure Comcast's fine print doesn't allow most P2P apps... not sure but just wanted to say hey folks be a little reasonable. If EFN was still available as an ISP, then I'd point you to them.... but it appears [to my in my sheltered little world] that their zealousness led to their demise. Let's not have that happen to EUGLUG, 'kay? Don't get me wrong, I love this group for all of our quirks ;) That's not going to keep me from expressing my opinion, either. On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 2:00 PM > >> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > >> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers > >> > >> I've had no problems with my WRT54G on the linksys firmware. > >> > >> I'm curious which of the DD-WRT specific features people find > >> most useful. Hal likes RADIUS. Someone else wanted static IPs > >> (though I think Tomato was selected for that). What else? > > > > > > I've had my WRT54GL for a little over a week now. I installed DD-WRT as > > soon as I took it out of the box, so I don't know what the linksys > > firmware has to offer (hey, I didn't buy the famously hackable wifi > > router so I could use it as-is). > > > > There are a ridiculous number of options on this thing. I definitely > > cranked up the juice on mine to 70mW (they claim 70mW is still safe from > > burning your router). There are a lot of cool QoS settings, and if I get > > around to it I think I'll look at throttling P2P traffic to see how that > > works out. Also on my to-do list is to set up various linux-based > > dedicated game servers (NWN, UT2k4, TF2, ET:QW) and see how that goes. > > My previous experiences with my old router were usually pretty > > frustrating with the port-forwarding and whatnot and I'd end up putting > > the server in the DMZ just to get a game server online. > > Port-forwarding works well under Tomato. And it has QoS, but I > didn't really evaluate that. > > Tomato also has triggered port forwarding. I was hoping that > was the same as port knocking. But I couldn't get it to do > what I wanted. Could be I just don't understand the purpose. > > > DD-WRT also has DNSMasq, which will take your DHCP clients and put them > > in a DNS table. This feature saved me a ton of headache because my house > > has quite a few boxes and being able to get to them all by name without > > looking up (or hardcoding) IP addresses is very nice. > > > > - Jason L. > > I don't know the name DNSMasq, but the behaviour you describe > is done by Tomato also. Very nice! > -- > Allen Brown > http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown<http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/%7Eabrown> > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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