[CentOS] Off topic - was: Re: Problem with WRT54GL router

Tue Oct 7 17:24:15 UTC 2014
Nels Lindquist <nlindq at maei.ca>

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On 9/19/2014 6:38 AM, ken wrote:
> On 09/19/2014 06:37 AM Timothy Murphy wrote:

> From what I've read on the dd-wrt forums, some of its
> distributions contain code which is vulnerable to heartbleed,  so
> you might want to check the version installed on your router.
> 
> As far as I know, the only way to update this firmware is to get
> an updated version of it and install it on top of (overwriting)
> the previous firmware version in pretty much the same way as you
> installed dd-wrt on top of the commercial firmware that came with
> the router.  In short, you're just doing the install again with a
> newer firmware version.

As another suggestion, you could try installing the Tomato firmware
rather than dd-wrt.  I used to run dd-wrt (on a v1.2 WRT-54GS) and had
similar stability issues; I've personally found Tomato
(http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) to be more stable.


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Nels Lindquist
<nlindq at maei.ca>

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