Beef up your wireless router with OpenWRT
By Ronald Bruintjes. Filed in Network |Josh Kuo has an interesting article about giving your old Linksys a new lease on life with the OpenWRT project.
Some of the options after installing OpenWRT:
- Install asterisk
- VoIP
- router/firewall on steroids with nmap, snort, and tcpdump
- VPN with openvpn
- Wireless hotspot with chilispot, FreeRadius and WPA.
- All-purpose office server with DHCP, cups, lighthttpd, NTP
OpenWRT is not officially released – its current version is Release Candidate 6.



