On 11/6/2006 12:01 PM EST, Owen Berry wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:11:25AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote: > >> Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> On Monday 06 November 2006 10:32 am, Brian Henning wrote: >>> >>>> Hiya Gang, >>>> If I pick up another WRT54G[L] and manage to successfully flash it >>>> with OpenWRT, >>>> >>> Curious -- what's the benefits of flashing the access point with new >>> firmware? >>> >> For my case, I didn't know that the factory WRT firmware would bridge >> itself with another WRT -- will it? >> >> I suspect in the general case, people do this because 1) they want >> feature X which factory firmware doesn't provide and 2) they can. >> > > Or you may have a distrust of Linksys' competence/priorities with regard > to the firmware for the WRT54GL - both of mine came with a newer > firmware than is available from their web site. Of course, having a lot > of your users using another firmware might remove the motivation to keep > things up to date too. > > Owen > Or (for me at least), static DHCP is not available for any residential-type routers, even though it's been available for years for other comparable products (D-Link, SMC, etc.). After submitting a request for that, I was told to buy their high-dollar business-class NAT router. How absurd.
FWIW, it seems like lots of people are using this DD-WRT. OpenWRT can have a big learning curve (mainly in regards to device names, services, doing all stuff w/o a serial port, etc.). -Rob -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
