Tex© Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 so i have a d-link DIR-655 and well i've herd good and bad .....*thinks not relevent* any how im trying to find a good/great open firmware for a gigabit router what you pplz use? please list em off if ye want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 (edited) There are several router firmwares out there, the ones I can think of are Open-WRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. From my understanding you will be better off with DD-WRT, that's what most users use nowadays. This article can tell you a bit more than I can. http://lifehacker.com/178132/hack-attack-t...to-a-600-router Edited June 8, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 From the dd-wrt forum - "The new d-links dir-655 & Co. won't be supported, becose they use Ubicron architecture - AND this is not open sorce, thre are no tools/library fore this crap! " You want to find a broadcom/atheros based router if you want custom linux firmware, or a small, low power x86 or embeded platform for something like PFsense, Monowall, Smoothwall or IPCop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex© Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 There are several router firmwares out there, the ones I can think of are Open-WRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. From my understanding you will be better off with DD-WRT, that's what most users use nowadays. This article can tell you a bit more than I can. http://lifehacker.com/178132/hack-attack-t...to-a-600-router thanks From the dd-wrt forum - "The new d-links dir-655 & Co. won't be supported, becose they use Ubicron architecture - AND this is not open sorce, thre are no tools/library fore this crap! " You want to find a broadcom/atheros based router if you want custom linux firmware, or a small, low power x86 or embeded platform for something like PFsense, Monowall, Smoothwall or IPCop. & thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOSys Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 (edited) Ubicom® Announces OpenWRT Compliant Router Platform Industry's leading open source router now runs on the world's most efficient multi-processor platform http://www.ubicom.com/company/news_events.php?pressid=1 Unfortunately only for the IP7100-processor or higher, the DIR 655 uses a 5000-series processor :( It's really a shame, there's so much more the 655 could do, like openVPN, NAS over USB-port ..... This is the best router-distro I've come across, it has almost everything : http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ My box is an old pentium with 512MB RAM and 2 giga-NIC's, works great . There are also special versions for certain router-boards : http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/hw/ Edited June 8, 2010 by IOSys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 (edited) This is the best router-distro I've come across, it has almost everything : http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ My box is an old pentium with 512MB RAM and 2 giga-NIC's, works great . Another great piece of open source software firewall. Good one Bro! Edited June 9, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex© Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Unfortunately only for the IP7100-processor or higher, the DIR 655 uses a 5000-series processor :( It's really a shame, there's so much more the 655 could do, like openVPN, NAS over USB-port ..... This is the best router-distro I've come across, it has almost everything : http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ My box is an old pentium with 512MB RAM and 2 giga-NIC's, works great . There are also special versions for certain router-boards : http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/hw/ nice O.O soooooo much i need to try out now XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 @Tex©, I have found a very good review on DD-WRT performance. I would recommend you reading it to give you a bit more of information on DD-WRT in general. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wi...ll=&start=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOSys Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 (edited) DD-WRT is a rip-off, use the one it's stolen from instead .. (Still won't work on DIR-655) http://openwrt.org/ Check this out : http://www.ebox-platform.com/ Not exactly a "router-distro", this has EVERYTHING : IMAP-server, NAS, SAMBA, BIND, openVPN etc etc . Uses Ubuntu server-distro with web-administration (firefox included), runs on x86 CPU's .. See the full feature-list here : http://trac.ebox-platform.com/wiki/Features Edited June 14, 2010 by IOSys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Meh, OpenWRT is harder to use and lacks of decent gui. DD-WRT takes the important bits of OpenWRT does, and makes it easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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