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Re: [sheflug] OpenWRT and wireless routers

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Subject: Re: [sheflug] OpenWRT and wireless routers
From: Tom Bird <tom [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:11:22 +0200
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On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:37:53PM +0100, Chris J wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Looking at replacing my long-serving firewall[1] with a smaller (in 
> form-size) device - wireless router, and am comtemplating chucking
> OpenWRT[2] on it.

I've had a lot of joy from OpenWRT on my Linksys wrt54g, even terminating
VPNs on it directly with OpenVPN.  It is also a lot more stable
(completely, seemingly uncrashable) by comparison with when it was running
the Linksys firmware, which would leave it in temporary brick mode every so
often.

Tom

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