[CS-FSLUG] Linksys WRT54GL with openwrt

[Frank Bax]

Last week we just received 30 of the WRT54G with plans to install 
openwrt on them all.  Last month we deployed only one of these as a test 
- so far so good.  We have not yet enabled wireless.  Would you care to 
share your ideas on how wireless should be configured (perhaps an example)?

I'm wondering about other capabilities of openwrt?

Simple case would be to not broadcast that wireless device exists; and 
only be usable by known mac addresses.  I guessing I could maintain a 
master list and push this to all my devices; so that laptops will "just 
work" in any location.

Fancier setup might allow access to unknown mac addresses on different 
subnet and restricted (slow) bandwidth to internet.

Most devices will have dynamic ip; is there some (easy) way that I can 
maintain a list of current ip addresses in use.  I do have at least one 
server with static ip address where I could keep the master list. 
dyndns has a limit of 5 sites per account.



Timothy Butler wrote:
> I'd go with one of the basic modems AT&T offers (e.g. a Motorola or 
> Speedstream) and plug it into a Linksys WRT54G 802.11b/g router. That's 
> my standard configuration for folks, and it works quite well. I'm not 
> fond of the 2Wire boxes.
> 
> -Tim
> 
> 
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> 
>> Assume you are stuck with AT&T DSL as your only broadband choice. Can
>> anyone recommend a better gateway than those 2Wire boxes AT&T sells?
>> Gotta have wifi, too.