Will Jason

***Hacking the WRT54G***

-WRT54G is a Linksys router and highly customizable with custom firmwares

-WRT54G - 16 MB of RAM & 4 MB of Flash
WRT54GS - 32 MB of RAM & 8 MB of Flash

-WRT54GS version 5 is not hackable because of the reduced RAM and Flash size. Instead of running Linux, it runs VxWorks. Because of this, Linksys has released the WRT54GL to appeal to the modders of the community. WRT54GL is the same as the older version of the WRT54G.

-Any other version of WRT54G or GS will work

-If you have to pay for a good firmware, then you’re getting ripped off

-DD-WRT is for those who wants more options in the router without the configuration of everything else. Simply upload via the web interface and you’re done.

-OpenWRT has the ipkg package management system included and many packages are available to add. You could virtual host a site, run a small FTP server, or set up an Asterisk box. I’d love to list all of the things you could do, but that’d take a while.

-For free firmwares:
DD-WRT –> http://www.dd-wrt.com
OpenWRT –> http://www.openwrt.org

-There are plenty more choices for firmwares, but I only named two. I think that they’re the best, but strictly opinion.

-email me at willjasen -at- charter.net. I know I said Gmail on the show, but I thought I was prepared to switch, but I’m not. 