[aklug] Re: Routers that have DHCP reservation enabled

dd-wrt claims to be LGPL (not GPL)which I always thought was close
enough.

I don't know that it really matters which one of the ones mentioned here
is chosen. I think they'll all fill most of our needs. I do however like
the idea of picking 1 and sticking to it. Just for consistency's sake.
It's nice not having to remember multiple ways of doing the same task.

This is also why I've never tended to be one of these "flavor of the
week" Linux people. I did make short jaunts into Debian and Suse and a
longer on into Gentoo in the past. Gentoo is the only one I've found
that I would seriously consider switching to on a personal level.

I tend to have 2 or 3 routers around. I have one at the office, one at
home and one I take on Friday nights. The ones at home and the office
run dd-wrt even though they are Buffalo & D-Link.. The one for Fridays
does not, but it was a freebie and I didn't have any say (I did look it
up to see if it could be converted),

Jim G

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:18 -0800, techno curmudgeon wrote:
> Almost everything currently available will do static mac->ip
> assignment via DHCP these days.
>
> If you are going to replace a router, there are lots of firmware out there.
>
> dd-wrt is popular, though I got kind of ticked off at what I regarded
> at the time as his sort of deceptive letter-but-not-the-spirit
> adherence to the GPL, so I abandoned dd-wrt years ago.
>
> I use tomato and tomato-usb a lot, but it only works on some broadcom
> based units. Pay attention to the HCL. But it has worked flawlessly
> and unattended in multiple locations for me for years.
>
> Of course, there is openwrt. Openwrt is good and I've gotten a lot of
> mileage out of openwrt. I have in general found it to be not as solid
> or operationally stable as tomato. Be aware that there are issues
> with PPPOE between the zhone DSL modems ACS uses and openwrt; they
> don't work or play well together. I determined that it was the zhone
> modems, but not any of the other modems (Nortel, for instance) that
> ACS uses. Other folks have reported similar problems with other ISPs,
> but not enough to really do anything serious to try to fix it.
>
> As far as actual routers, pay close attention to the HCL for whatever
> firmware you decide to use. For openwrt, I've settled on the
> Trendlink 1043ND unless I want 5GHz (an), in which case I use Netgear
> WNDR3700. I've had very good luck with Buffalo also, and pretty good
> luck with Asus. Be sure and get the max memory, both flash and ram.
>
> Hope this helps.
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Received on Tue May 22 15:48:17 2012