I previously wrote about installing and using the alternative linksys firmware, DD-WRT. Well, after running DD-WRT for about 5 months I’ve decided to roll back to the original linksys firmware.  Here’s my reasoning:

  • My linksys wrt54g v8 was only capable of running dd-wrt MICRO.  Micro has the least amount of features of any of the dd-wrt releases (the linksys doesn’t have enough nvram to store any more features/applications)
  • IPtables support was crippled in dd-wrt micro v24 that I was running.  I wanted to setup a span/mirror port which was not possible (at least not for me).  I’ll have to spend a few bucks now and buy a hub (if i can find one anywhere!  No one seems to sell hubs..)
  • The DD-WRT was randomly forgetting all of its settings (port forwardings etc, which was causing me to lose all remote access to my machines).  DD-WRT doesn’t run SSH at the micro level and there’s no way I’m leaving telnet open publicly.
  • DD-WRT was unreliable.  I had to reboot it at least once a month because it would lock up and stop routing packets.

Has anyone tried OpenWRT?