About DD-WRT

12. December 2004

DD-WRT was founded
The initial target was just a modification of the original Linksys Firmware for supporting
simple Radius Authentication, But I decided to add some more small tools and fancy things, just for fun.

Anytime in January 2005

Out from the great Response
from our Community, after releasing it to the public, I developed more and more features and started also to redesign the complete
firmware.

June 2005
Just 6 months later, i quit my regular Job in the Software Industry and started to work on DD-WRT as full time Job, at this time i joined
the Blueline-AG for getting some help with the financial background.

January 2006
Started todo some code supporting work for FON

May 2006
Since i was unable to fullfill my dreams within the Blueline-AG i joined the NewMedia-NET GmbH and finally i got the support for bringing
DD-WRT to the next level which was

September 2006
DD-WRT V23 SP2 was released which seemed our biggest success so far. many people still like it
At this time we started also porting DD-WRT to various Platforms like
Avila Gateworks, X86, FON Fonera and whatever was comming to my dev table. (about 90 different router types so far)

August 2007
We finally got a contract with a main vendor of Wireless Routers. Buffalo decided that they want to work with us together on future wireless platforms.

October 2007
The Buffalo WHR-HP-G54DD (EU only) was released by Buffalo with a exlusive DD-WRT Firmware

December 2007
The Buffalo AS-100 (Japan only) was released by Buffalo

Soon:

Release of v24 final. unlike some rumours, it will be activation free for all home or broadcom based routers like in the past.
We are currently in our final stages and deep in final tests. so keep patient until its ready. its worth to wait a little bit

18.05.08

We are very proud to release the final DD-WRT v24 to the public. After months of development and bug fixing we are sure this release is as stable and reliable people expect a DD-WRT major release to be. The v24 binaries are now available in the download section (click here).

DD-WRT v24 offers many new features, on of the most important is support of Atheros wlan chipsets and SOC designs. By supporting special features of the Atheros wireless designs like half- and quarter channels and extended channel support DD-WRT is now perfectly suited for long range wireless links. With this DD-WRT is now also supporting the whole Ubiquity line of wireless products using all available features the hardware offers.

Highlights of DD-WRT v24:
- Virtual SSIDs, Virtual DHCP-Servers, PPTP over WAN enhencements, Bridging + VLAN support, VDSL Support, OLSR-Routing / Freifunk, My Ad Network (powered by AnchorFree), Quaqqa instead of Bird (in X86 + Xscale default), PPPOE-Server, EOIP-Tunnel, Network configuration enhencements, UP-Downstream (QOS), New Packet Scheduler HFSC, Save & Apply, extended DDNS options, extended status information, New Languages, Sipwerk integrated Milkfish into the new release, turning every DD-WRT router into a SIP-aware firewall.


New hardware platforms:
- X86, Avila Gateworks, Cambria Gateworks, Atheros Soc (for a list, please look into the Download Section), Compex,Senao, Fonera, Ubiquiti

Thanks for all the help and response we got.

DD-WRT is:

Sebastian Gottschall (BrainSlayer, founder, maindeveloper)
Christian Scheele (Chris, CEO)
Ales Majdic (Eko, fixing alot)
Sylvain Bothorel (Botho,router webdesign)
Felix Fietkau (nbd/openwrt,madwifi)

and alot of supporters around the world

Helpful Links

Click for List of supported hardware that support DD-WRT

Click Here to download dd-wrt

Click Here to Support DD-WRT

DD-WRT Wikipedia Page & Guideline

Example of interfaces

WRT54GS Ver 1.1 running on Ver 24 Final



This post has been edited by MX510: Jun 19 2008, 12:33 PM

Really ?? I'm also gonna flash it later.

I am going to flash this. Its one of the greatest frimware ever to be created. OpenWRT + GUI

finally..ehehehe..after long time keep flashin wit their latest beta firmware(Which peepz say its not good to alwayz flash ur router)..

hurm...afterthis..keep flashin my router wit v24 beta

This post has been edited by amirsubhi: Dec 29 2005, 09:42 AM

After flash do give snapshot and feedback okies

I just flashed it. For feedbacks, I'll post it later. Need to do a long test before can give any feedbacks. What snapshot do you guys want ?

I just flash it refer to my first post working perfectly rite now

This is my screenie.

P/S : Only prasys and moderating team knows my IP.

This post has been edited by hardyboyz888: Dec 29 2005, 03:00 PM

Okay , it works..Surfing is somewhat faster. This thing broke my iPV6 Support. I might have to fix it. Other then that its great

I m going to flash to this too...

i am wondering whether it can it is suitable for linksys v 5.0 firmware?

It does not work on V5 , nor any other 3rd party frimware do , becuase V5 does not use Linux anymore..nor it uses the broadcom chip

Ok..
Then i need to downgrade my firmwae from 5.0 to 4.0

You cannot , the hardware revision does not support it. So its impossible , you cannot

even if you load , you would brick your router and void your warranty

Well, you can always screw up your router and try to claim warranty. Hehe. But please be aware that it won't be 100% guaranteed you will get a 1 to 1 exchange.

Have the developers fixed the memory leak problem?

The reason I use tofu11 instead of this is because of the memeory leaks and has to be rebooted every week or so.

Memory leaks ? I don't experience any memory leaks so far. Which version did you use that you experience the memory leak problem ?

The v22 firmware.

Maybe I will try the new version later.

Yeah. v23 Final.

Fixed , well ..thats what I have heard. It has been fixed. Since its using OpenWRT as its base , I guess its fixed , plus webpages loads 50-80% faster