Tutorials

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[edit] Basic tutorials

These tutorials have content most new users will understand and be able to deploy.

Access Restrictions Afterburner (AKA Speedbooster) Bridging (all types) Chillispot hotspot (now is very simple) Client Bridged Client Mode Configuration settings for UMA enabled phones CRON DNSMasq as DHCP server EoIP Routing (Linking of two routers over the Internet) Firewall Firewall Builder HotSpot HTTP Redirect MAC Address Clone Milkfish Setup Networking 101 for Dummies Network Time Protocol (NTP) NoCatSplash Obtaining an Unknown Router IP Address OpenDNS Port Blocking Port Forwarding Port Forwarding Using UPnP Quality of Service (QoS) Repeater Bridge

Samba Filesystem Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) SSH access from internet Sshfs Sony PSP and Remote Play Startup Scripts Static DHCP Subnet Calculator Telnet/SSH and the Command Line Telnet/SSH BusyBox Commands URL - Keyword blocking (Access Restrictions) USB Support (USB) USB storage Use switched ports outside the router Useful Scripts Verizon FiOS - Using Your Own Router Wake On Lan (WOL) Wireless Access Point Wireless-N Configuration Wireless Bridge Wireless Packet Info - RX/TX Errors VPN (the easy way) v24+ WL command help (Wireless Commands) WMM Support

[edit] Advanced tutorials

These tutorials require a certain degree of knowledge about general networking that some new users may or may not understand.

Additional USB ports and Internal HD on Asus WL500gP Cellular Phone/USB Modem as WAN connection CFE_backup Chillispot hotspot Configure RSS feed output DNSMasq - DNS for your local network - HOWTO DNSMasq using alternative DNS-Servers - and not the DNS-Servers of your provider DDNS - How to setup Custom DDNS settings using embedded inadyn - HOWTO DDNS - How to manage multiple DDNS accounts using embedded inadyn - HOWTO DDNS - Alternate way to manage multiple DDNS accounts using updatedd - HOWTO Dual SSID one for public network Dual-WAN for simple round-robin load equalization Dual WAN with one as standby backup FON Hotspot using Chillispot Gaming over VPN HDsamba2 - Setting up and using How to access to the modem configuration interface thru Wrt Iptables command IPv6 JFFS and other possibilities for storing JFFS - Using nvram to enable Jffs Kai Console Gaming Linking Routers - WDS, Repeaters, OLSR, etc. Linking Subnets with Static Routes Logging with DD-WRT NAT-PMP - UPnP-like for Mac users OpenVPN Set up a VPN server on the DD-WRT Router with OpenVPN or PPTP Server Configuration OpenVPN - Site-to-Site routed VPN between two routers using Static Key OpenVPN - Site-to-Site Bridged VPN Between Two Routers Using PKI One-to-one NAT (aka Static NAT) Optware Tutorial Optware, the Right Way Page swapping for DD-WRT Preventing Brute Force Attacks (WiP) PPTP Server Configuration Point-to-Point PPTP Tunneling with two DD-WRT PXE - Allow thin clients to boot using DD-WRT's DHCP service

Router as a Web Server Rsync Backup Server (win/mac/linux clients) Separate LAN and WLAN Separate WLANs Setting up a Transparent Proxy Server using Squid SNMP Setting up IPTV without impact to LAN and Wireless traffic siproxd -- Transparent sip proxy for using sip devices without nat/outbound proxy configuration (e.g. Nokia e61) SFTP with DD-WRT - Access your DD-WRT-based router with SFTP. SES_Button - Customizing Two Wi-Fi Networks on Separate Subnets Upgrading WL-500g Premium, WL-500W and WL-700gE RAM to 128 MB USB on ASUS WL500GPV2 - Basic USB printing and storage How To for ASUS WL500G Premium V2 Use WAN port as a normal switched port Ushare uPnP media server Using ipkg to install OpenWRT packages Using RFlow Collector and MySQL To Gather Traffic Information Using VPNC to connect to a Cisco VPN Concentrator Verizon FIOS setup with dd-wrt as primary router Verizon FIOS setup Walkaround with Coax cable (MoCA) VLAN Default Configuration VLAN Configuration VLAN Bridging WAN and a LAN port VLAN Detached Networks (Separate Networks With Internet) VLAN Detached Networks each with Wireless and Internet Windows XP PPTP VPN Client Configuration WLAN separate from LAN, with independent dhcp, etc V24: WLAN separate from LAN, with independent DHCP

[edit] Installable packages

This list covers additional software that can be installed on devices running DD-WRT. Note that you can install any OpenWRT package, using ipkg. Additionally more than 1000 packages are provided with NSLU2-Linux Optware packages build specially for DD-WRT.

BWlog -- Bandwidth Log - realtime bandwidth graphing. iftop -- for ncurses-based monitoring of active connections and their bandwidth Kismet Server/Drone -- using a windows box to display results Port Knocker daemon Miau IRC Bouncer Multi Router Traffic Grapher No-IP.com Client OpenSwan Asterisk -- open source PBX VoIP system

VNCRepeater -- connect to multiple vnc servers behind a NAT firewall and only have to forward one port. Note: Someone pls create and adapt this page for dd-wrt. wrt54g kismet with linux server -- using a linux box to display results Wiviz - DHTML interface to scan for networks and see signal strength and effects of antenna adjustment in real time vsftpd -- FTP server ProFTPd -- Howto install ProFTPd and start it via xinetd.