From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QCdld-000690-Lt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:12:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C7A11C02C; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43911C02C for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so705696qwb.40 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:11:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kXmtkxV+9Gd/dZrwv1NCU+AZi04wW9s3jV/lwDGpMgw=; b=e56wdr6J5xb0YW1tzLTCNnHBazQ3tmcIRyLjizDia+FbnkRLR74ca8ss0aMsMPUKVl +SP9zpeyp1Fq1QPrm6y4wnLouVardf4PY7TKGnCQ0BCYHrczNLrCet6kM2op+QpZOE7A TTO6Tg4Tk2tTt2rUBQWk3a3lryV8+cgZny0KU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Wif1gKGWTF+e4pc/Q0d4X2LnQL3YhWInxKdWzH9ZtMhPnFTcZN08sPnb4jZnISGAS2 yp6oYWGx2cEjleKZduRZb03Sp2xNHFeuwx0QSZsoQFm02qfsOSQ31Kau+r3VTzPsgnnZ UjeVZF0gU+HrVMOcnqtjpk6t/8CgDudE2bFDw= Received: by 10.229.33.9 with SMTP id f9mr5850273qcd.4.1303330288268; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.111.71 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:11:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fwpcd8ol.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <878vv69asl.fsf@newsguy.com> <8739lceqmm.fsf@newsguy.com> <87fwpcd8ol.fsf@newsguy.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:11:08 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Tniq-C0lLq_fwycTQsNGSe9VssY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 999dd94507e9b5062adbb189fea996e0 On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Whereas openWRT sounds like you may need to role your own iptables > script right off the bat. =A0at least judging from a few posts I've now > read from their mailing list where people seem to be asking the kinds > of iptables questions you might find on that list.. Right, OpenWRT is more of a "do-it-yourself" distro, with a package manager, you install what you want to use and configure it yourself. DD-WRT is more of the "ubuntu-style" router OS, it comes with a bunch of services pre-installed and pre-configured, with a pretty GUI, and you only have to enable or disable them and the defaults are set up for your hardware already. Under the surface, both are very similar, in fact I read that new versions of DD-WRT are going to be developed on top of OpenWRT. Both can be configured via telnet/ssh or via a web GUI. I think that if someone can handle Gentoo, they can definitely handle OpenWRT. I have 3 Buffalo routers (all different models) and I'm using DD-WRT on 2 of them and OpenWRT on the other, though I'm not doing anything particularly complicated on any of them.