I recently started to push the firmware of my linksys router (WRT54G v2.2 if I remember correctly). Basically more torrents which means more sockets the router, and the nat subsystem have to deal with.
Despite using the latest version of the linksys firmware, the wireless device kept crashing at me and I had to reboot and restore default settings two times per month. Yes, I know, unacceptable.
Long time ago I heart about a group called dd-wrt which was building his own version of firmware for my router and other ones based on the same hardware and OS. The OS of this device is the venerable linux. Due to the license of this OS, linksys had to publish their source opening a new door for people to build their own firmware.
When I first heart about it, I thought it was very interesting but I didn't have a real need for replacing the firmware at that time. Things have obviously changed since then.
After reading a little bit about I found out what was the process of replacing the firmware of my device with dd-wrt. These are the simple steps:
I hope that after this upgrade, the montly reboots disapear. Let's see.
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