LinkSys WRT54G and OpenWRT

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Mar 12 14:55:32 EDT 2007


On Monday 12 March 2007 11:21:18 Ben Scott wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just wanted to change the *(@#$&^)%# subnet mask on the box to
> > 255.255.0.0 instead of being limited to their list.
>
>   24 bits of netmask should be enough for anyone.  ;-)
>
> > hyperWRT ... doesn't appear to have SNMP support ....
> > ... I'd like to monitor per-port bandwidth ...
>
>   OpenWRT has a metric crapload of packages which appear in the
> "available to be installed" list.  SNMP, Radius, Samba, Asterisk, all
> sorts of stuff.
>
>   You should like it, ipkg is based on dpkg/apt.  ;-)
>
>   I did see that the X-WRT/Webif^2 package I installed added all sorts
> of really pretty looking graphs in the web UI.  I didn't really get
> further than going "Ohhh, pretty" yet, but I think bandwidth
> utilization was in there.

Yup, its there. And it made me cry, watching how pitiful the throughput was 
when using an ipsec vpn client running on the wrt. :)


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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