Ever needed to manually control host/domain IPs using the hosts file? Well, good thing most computers have a hosts file, but what do you do with other devices that do not support such a feature.
If you’re running a DD-WRT router, by using DNSMasq the DNS change will work for all devices that connect to your router, including mobile devices.
Running a PPTP server on your own router is very handy when you need a secure/trusted middle point from which to connect to all your external services while being on the move.
Or maybe you just want to access some private resource that’s only available in your LAN. Either way, with DD-WRT it’s very easy to set up a PPTP server.
The Negear WNDR4500v2 router is quite a beefy piece of hardware with advanced firmware, including plenty of features even for a maniac user like me.
I would most likely not have replaced it from day 1 however if it had one more feature that I absolutely needed: TFTP/PXE/BootP options for the DHCP server. There is where DD-WRT comes in…
One may find himself in the face the scenario of having to fix a friend’s infected computer and needing internet access to install/run cleanup utilities while at the same time trying to avoid spamming the internet and get the public IP blacklisted or even blocked.
Using a router running DD-WRT, this is easy to do using custom firewall rules…
If you’re running a munin node and server and also poses a WRT54GL router running DD-WRT, you can easily create graphs for some of the router’s stats in munin via SNMP.
If you’ve done the SD card mod on WRT54GL, you might at some point change it with a bigger / faster card. You could just replace the SD card with a bigger one, but then you’d have to install/re-configure everything set up on it (like Optware stuff). […]
I got a Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router that somewhat worked and somewhat didn’t: it booted alright (no led errors), responded to ping on its default IP (192.168.1.1), bot other than that, it did not respond on the web interface, nor telnet/ssh, nor dhcp.
I tried the 30/30/30 reset , tried TFTP recovery – nothing worked.
As it had the original Linksys firmware, at this point it was either a hardware failure or the only recovery course would be the JTAG reflash.
