Linksys WRT54GL With DDWRT Firmware

By default the Linksys WRT54GL with original firmware can only road in AP mode only, so he can not act as a station or a client, but when he upgraded firmwarenya with DDWRT (www.dd-wrt.com), Linksys disitulah furor started last, he rose class from economy class to premium class, the firmware made in Germany, Sebastian Gottschall aka BrainSlayer, considered to improve the performance of these access points.
Feature of Linux-based firmware are:


# 802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
# Access restrictions
# Ad Hoc
Afterburner #
# Client Isolation Mode
# Client Mode (supports multiple connected clients)
# DHCP Forwarder (udhcp)
# DHCP server (dnsmasq or udhcp)
# Forwarder DNS (dnsmasq)
Unit #
# Dynamic DNS (DynDNS, easyDNS, FreeDNS, No-IP, TZO,
ZoneEdit, custom, and others)
# Hotspot Portal (Sputnik Agent, Chillispot)
# IPv6
# JFFS2 (JFFS2)
# MMC / SD Card Support (hardware modification required)
NTP #
# Ntop Remote Statistic (ntop)
# OpenVPN Client & Server (only in VPN-build of the firmware)
# Port Triggering
# Port Fowarding
# PPTP VPN Server & Client
# QoS Bandwidth Management
# QoS L7 Packet Classifier (l7-filter)
# RFlow
Routing # (bird)
# Samba FS Automount
# Syslog
# Rx Antenna
# Tx Antenna
# Show Status of Wireless Clients and WDS with System
Uptime / Processor Utilization
# Site Survey
# SNMP
# SSH server & client (dropbear)
# Startup, Firewall, and Shutdown scripts (startup script)
# Static DHCP
# Style (Changeable GUI; v.23)
# Supports New Devices (WRT54G V3, V3.1, v4, V5 and WRT54GS
V2.1, V3, v4)
# Telnet server & client
# Power transmits adjustment (0-251mW, default is 28mW, 100mW is
safe)
# UPnP
# VLAN
# WOL (Wake On Lan) (WOL)
# WDS Connection Watchdog
# WDS Repeater Mode
# Wireless MAC Address Cloning
# Wireless MAC Filter
# WMM (Wi-Fi MultiMedia)
# WPA over WDS
# WPA / TKIP with AES
# WPA2

Based on the author experience, type access points (AP) Linksys upgraded to a suitable DDWRT, is the Linksys WRT54GL, besides AP type, the possibility of failure of one update, so do not try upgrading your firmware without the knowledge and experience.

DDWRT to upgrade the firmware, download the first step in the first firmware dwrt site: www.dd-wrt.com, choose the version according to your desire, you should select the mini version first, security for your Linksys devices, after the download on your computer, you enter to the web configuration Linksys WRT54GL, you go to the administration section, select the field firmware upgrade, do upgrade, remember during the firware upgrade, do not connect to the power is turned off or out, in case of a result so will damage the Linksys you have a message after the upgrade successful, you do the reset, to be more stable, and then after the reset, do the upgrade back by using the standard firmware, remember once again after the upgrade process is completed or successful, do the reset for the second time. Such scenarios DDWRT firmware upgrade process, any posts in the other we will feature some DDWRT.