I really want openwrt on my new router, actually got it for that reason without really investing enough time to check for any images.
So apparently RB450 can support openwrt, but i would love to which ar71XX bin. should I use? I really don’t want to compile everything myself, But i would if I had a decent guide. For example which options should I use during the menuconfig? maybe a rundown of wget2nand? just general solid direction applicable to Backfire and anything in the last 5 months is recent enough.
You can probably do that, but the RouterOS it came with is also Linux based, and very capable. Unless you have some very particular requirement you might be better off trying it.
Like you I discovered the RouterBoard hardware while looking for a SBC to use with a Linux or BSD based router distro, but after discovering that it would do just about everything on my wish list straight out of the box, didn’t see any reason to deal with the “roll your own” hassles.
The main reason I want to go openwrt, is because I work as a Linux Systems Admin and know it so well. Plus its open, I really prefer open. I also like how flexible it is.
But… it is a hassle, and if I were able to get this RB450G working as a SOHO router w/ RouterOS correctly that would suffice as a working solution.
I just am really stuck, and not sure where to go from where i’m at.
I opened a new post so this one can serve its original purpose.
Setting up a RB is a bit more complicated than the average point and grunt consumer router, but it’s actually not that hard if you’ve worked with something like Cisco gear before.
Default setup is already firewalled and sane with ether1 as the WAN IF with a DHCP client facing out, and ether2-5 switched with a DHCP server facing in and a NAT rule between the LAN and WAN.
To change the internal IP from the default there are about 4-5 places you need to touch, and it helps to start with a virtual IF with the default address on the PC you’re working from so you don’t get cut off halfway through. (been there, done that…) E.g.
Additionally my second RB450G was delivered! As previously indicated, once I got OpenWrt successfully installed, I’d be purchasing more of these routers.
I’m running backfire release for month now without a single glitch.
Really happy with this, no “magic reset” nor bug, all the features I want and secure and up to date system.