[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

> Consider OpenWRT. You can run it on something like the Netgear
> WNR2000, the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, or something even cheaper if you
> don't need wifi.

I don't need wifi, but of course OpenWRT won't run on the cisco
But that WZR-HP-G300NH is looking promising.

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> I have WZR-HP-G300NH (running DD-WRT), if you don't plan on using wifi
> it would be great. The wifi is really unstable and I couldn't
> recommend this device if you're a heavy wifi user, but the wired
> portion works great, the device itself is by far the fastest I've ever
> owned, and it has a USB port so you can attach external storage in
> case you want to use it as a server, too.

Can you make any comment about the logging capabilities?

"W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au> writes:

[...]

> I have this device and am using Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/07/10) std
> - its been totally stable since I dumped the buffalo firmware.  My son
> plays windoze online games and I often move large files around as well
> as stream mythtv across it - no problems at all.  Until I started
> powering the systems down at night (power charges went up :) it would
> stay up for over a month at a time and it was never a crash as to why it
> was restarted - usually power, or reconfiguration.

Maybe you can make some comment about logging capablities?  Maybe one
or both of you might be willing to post a log sample?