802.11g  signal strength; gigE

John Kirby kirblam at comcast.net
Mon Dec 19 11:43:59 EST 2005


Make sure you research which of these alternate firmwares support WRT54Gv4

When I did the research recently, DDWRT was the only one that supported v4. 
That might not be the case anymore but it was a month or 2 ago.
http://www.dd-wrt.org/

Also, if you do choose DDWRT, make sure you read the site for a bit. I believe 
you need the 'mini' firmware due to some memory constraints. Anyway, do the 
research. I got the image to work but the documentation is pretty mediocre.

I managed to 'brick' my router for a bit until I learned how to short out the 
flash with a screwdriver...anyway, be careful with the alternate firmwares. I 
love DDWRT but it can be a learning experience.

On Monday 19 December 2005 11:30, discuss-request at blu.org wrote:
> Rich Braun wrote:
> >  [...] One feature still missing in the new WRT54G code is port-number
> >  translation: if you want sshd to listen on port 54623 instead of
> >  port 22, you can't do the mapping at the WRT54G firewall--you have to
> >  reconfigure your Linux box.)
>
> Using either the Sveasoft or OpenWRT enhanced builds, you can run full
> iptables scripts on the Linksys WRT-54G series, so that's certainly
> doable. Neither lets you do it from a nice web gui though, so you'll
> need to shell in to the unit and update the appropriate init scripts.
> Other features:
> * cron
> * dhcpd
> * dnsmasq
> * pptp server
> * sshd



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