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The fun of installing custom router firmware (tomato, dd-wrt) - an introduction
Shades:
Another vote for Untangle here. I had an old white-box laying around, put in two network cards and put Untangle on it. Easy to install and the default configuration settings worked out of the box within my LAN. You have a good overview of bandwidth usage, DHCP, DNS, VPN, encryption and a boatload of options/services more.
The free version is already quite complete and you can buy extra features/enhancements to existing features from them as well.
Can't tell you much about those though, never had a need to buy anything. And that white-box is already running steady for at least two years now (if I don't take the power failures into account).
Edvard:
BTW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_(firmware)
The most complete (feature-ful, that is) appear to be the Shibby, Teaman and RAF mods:
Shibby: http://tomato.groov.pl/
Teaman: http://code.google.com/p/tomato-sdhc-vlan/
RAF: http://victek.is-a-geek.com/
I like Victek's simulation, so you get a try-before-you-buy look at what to expect:
http://victek.is-a-geek.com/virtual/tomatok26/status-index.html
:Thmbsup:
mwb1100:
FWIW, the most useful setting in Tomato that I think every router firmware should have is the one that lets you set it to reboot itself in the middle of the night every day. For me, that completely solved the problem of having to pull the power on the router when it started having problems after a couple weeks of constant uptime.
wraith808:
FWIW, the most useful setting in Tomato that I think every router firmware should have is the one that lets you set it to reboot itself in the middle of the night every day. For me, that completely solved the problem of having to pull the power on the router when it started having problems after a couple weeks of constant uptime.
-mwb1100 (August 04, 2013, 02:22 AM)
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That *does* sound useful. Though I really only get those problems after the cable goes down for some reason. I wonder if it could sense that and reboot...
4wd:
ASUS RT-N16 running Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-112 K26 USB AIO (Shibby).
Currently have DNSCrypt enabled in the router to CloudNS, (Australian public encrypted DNS: CloudNS).
Also just started using: Clean, Lean and Mean Adblocking - I've disabled AdBlock+ in Pale Moon, (I probably won't notice any difference anyway since I was already using the MVPS hosts file to block most ad/tracking servers).
Next on the todo list is setup the two VPN clients to my OS VPS' and redirect specific VLANs to one or the other, that way I can just swap IPs on any of the computers to have them go via a different VPN.
For lot's of good info on Tomato: Tomato Firmware
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