Alternative Firmware for the WRT54GS

Ok, yes, I bought a new WRT54GS, this works quite fine. I ‘m able to do what i want with that stuff. I will explain in a future post how to use this stuff in a secure way without using WEP.

Here is the list of firmware to use on this little box:

  • The Official one (pretty nice, but doesn’t allow telnet over device )
  • Sveasoft (the infamous weaked GPL one)
  • EWRT (sveasoft + nocat -> hotspot)
  • Wifi-box (hum not tested yet)
  • openWRT (minimal setup without http)
  • MeshBoxKit (openWRT + OLSR, special for Meshing)

Look at Seattle wiki on WRT for more infos. Do you use another one ?

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3 Responses to “Alternative Firmware for the WRT54GS”

  1. # Jkxon 22 Nov 2004 at 12:20 am

    Ok, after some large tests .. openWRT is simply the best. The main reason, is that it allow the user to hack on the filesystem directly. So hacking the firewall is a simply trick .. and you can hack the network interface too.

    For example i use this kind of stuff:

    • WAN is 192.168.1.50 ( thought a dhcp on my network)
    • WLAN is bound to 192.168.2.X .. and i hacked the dnsmasq to allow dhcp in this network.
    • I hacked the FW to allow full access from the wired to wifi, and restrict the wifi to wired. (I don’t want my wifi users to hack my network ! )

    I guess this config is not the best for everyone .. but this is simple and secure. Perhaps i need to hack the bridge a little more .. to have something like this:

    • Ether and Wifi on different subnets (from the AP)
    • use the WAN to bridge the wifi .. (to sniff for example)..

    And last point, I installed php on this little box.. This is pretty cool !

    openWRT is really a great stuff

  2. # Ricon 22 Nov 2004 at 6:08 pm

    T’aurais pu ajouter une p’tite image!
    http://www.clubic.com/photo/00099552.jpg
    Parce qu’en plus il est beau ton wrt54gs.
    Puis ca cause + … aux beotiens du wrt—

  3. # BeLeBoredon 27 Oct 2005 at 9:21 am

    Uhh you forgot the best one!

    http://DD-WRT.com

    ;)

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