[TriLUG] OpenWRT

[John Vaughters via TriLUG]

 >Religious war because bored: DD-WRT or OpenWRT?

I just went with DD-WRT, because it had a supercheap refurb router option at the time I was looking. I considered both, but went with DD-WRT. Once I got stuck on that ecosystem, I just stuck with it to reduce work. I hate work, that's why I work so much to stop working too much with automation and skill minimization in areas I don't really care about, but for some reason, people keep finding more work for me. I blame Adam!

Sorry, no war from me. At this time, it seems like OpenWRT is more supported, but I haven't really checked either.

~John Vaughters




On Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 02:24:02 PM EST, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote: 





On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM John Vaughters via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> +1 on OpenWRT
>
> I used DD-WRT for many many years and used to create active firewalls where I could use ssh with a key to open a port to the ip that traffic came from currently.  Making for a very secure access when needed. These embedded versions come with a multitude of VPNs that I used to create distributed networks. Only recently my 15 year old router dies and I went to a TP-Link for a variety of reasons. And of course TP-Link is on the list of bad security routers. Why should I be surprised. Anyway, I miss the full on access to a linux system and all the flexibility it provided. One day I will go back to the embedded solution.
>
> It was a good run of VERY low cost and secure routing solutions.
>
> ~John Vaughters
>
      Religious war because bored: DD-WRT or OpenWRT?

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