Let me tell ya...I have my “Oh” face on! (Anyone who has ever seen Office Space should know what I'm talking about.)
I can not believe the amount of difference there is in this firmware. I thought it was good over a year ago, now its just amazing.
I really enjoyed Tomato, but unfortunately at this point it just doesn't provide the extra functionality I needed.
However its still a highly suggested firmware!
Why the Change?
I needed to be able to place a machine on a DMZ and not have it see any of the other machines on the network.
Call my silly, but I just dont like the idea of being able to log into a machine remotely and having access to all my other machines from that DMZed machine.
DDWRT has a VLan setting that I'll be using and in theory should make it a bit more secure. (Even though security is just an illusion!)
I'm going to set a few workstation/servers to use a VLan to keep it away from my internal network. So in theory anything I place on the VLan shouldn't have access to my second network.
Configuration and tweaking will take a little time, but it will be worth the upgrade for the additional functionality.
So Lets Start!
Firts step....back up my Tomato configuration!
NOTE: One very important thing to do is clear the NVRAM befor upgrading to DDWRT. If this is not done you could run into potential problems during the configuration of DDWRT.
Now that thats done lets do the firmware upgrade!
hmmm....yeah.., never took a screen shot of that...ah oops.
Ok, now that thats out of the way.....lets configure!
DDWRT Interface
I'm not going to hop into the advance features of this firmware as of now, just the basic settings to get us up and running.
Lets take a look at some screen shots of DDWRT V24 SP1!
The First Screen shown when logging onto the router.
I thought this was excellent. The first screen shown when logging on is to set the user and password.
MAC Cloning so we can get on the internet.
Very basic and standard feature on most of today routers.
The Basic network set up.
Not too much to say, for the most part its standard with a few exceptions.
Set Up the Wireless.
Standard once again.
Set up the wireless security.
As you can see we plenty to choices for the wireless security.
Set up MAC Filtering to allow or not allow wireless connections.
Once again standard.
Enable UPNP
Basic.
Static DHCP
Static DHCP.....always good to have!
VLAN
This is where the fun will begin!
This is where I stop for now. I havent tried to set any of the VLans up yet but will in the near future.
Its gonna take a little playing and configuring with, but I know it will serve me well!
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