[COLUG] SNMP-aware equipment for the home network?

[Zane C.B.]

On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:43:55 +1000
Duane <duane at e164.org> wrote:

> Wade Pinkston wrote:
> > I experienced almost the same situation, I had different
> > motivation.  I put dd-wrt on my linksys wrt54g.  Problem solved.
> 
> You will need to make sure the router is a wrt54g v1-4 or just get a
> wrt54gl (almost identical in every way to the wrt54g v4) (4M
> flash/8M ram)
> 
> while I think you may be able to run linux on the wrt54g v5+ now,
> but they have only 2M of flash and 4M of ram so the usefulness in
> terms of what you can run on them is very limited.

The v. 5 also has a issue with a high rate of failure when flashing
it with new firmware. Avoid it for absolutely any thing.

The version has a way higher failure rate all around compared earlier
versions of that model.

/me use to work for a ISP that use to hand out several different
cheap routers.

> There are other similar devices some have more memory then others
> older WRT54GS's had 8M of flash memory (32M ram) and a slightly
> faster CPU which can make a diff if you want to run OpenVPN or
> other funky things that can chew CPU.
> 
> ASUS makes a product that can run OpenWT/dd-wrt but they have a USB
> port so you can plug a hdd into them.