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Hi Chuck, What do you mean by the following with regards to loop back ? Thanks. " I use my WRT only as a wireless access point now, and use m0n0wall as the firewall. M0n0wall is much more versatile (despite its inability to loop back through itself without using DNS redirection)." Regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Munro [mailto:chuckm at seafoam dot net] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 2:49 AM To: m0n0wall-list Subject: [m0n0wall] WRT54G Internal Changes > Ed Chatlos ............ > > There really is NO comparison between a Linksys WRT and > any hardware running M0n0. Which is best depends on what > you need. To be honest none of the WRT series routers > are very good. The big deal with the WRT's is the ability > to load aftermarket firmware's that include some features > Linksys never intended to run on those boxes and the WiFi > power boost feature. If it wasn't for that the WRT would > be just another run of the mill wireless router. You > really do get what you pay for. And to make matters worse, Cisco's takeover of Linksys has resulted in even more problems. The latest versions of the WRT54 series don't run Linux any more ... they've switched to VxWorks so that they no longer have to publish their source code under the GPL. See item 1) at the following: http://www.nwc.com/mobile/archives/mobile_archive_113005.html I don't know if this means you can't retrofit the old Linux code into the new router models, but I've heard there are many sad tales of unstable operation ever since the switch to the new operating system. Has anyone tried to downgrade the firmware (back to Linux) or is there some sort of code in the new versions to prevent this? I use my WRT only as a wireless access point now, and use m0n0wall as the firewall. M0n0wall is much more versatile (despite its inability to loop back through itself without using DNS redirection). Chuck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |