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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: MustardTent on July 29, 2008, 10:30:32 am --- I'd also like to point out that the firmware upgrade kept all my previous configuration from login password to wireless security settings.

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Ooh that's nice.  One of the main reasons I never got around to installing DD-WRT was that I didn't have time to go in and audit the various network configs to make sure I could get them all set up again in a new firmware.

shmokes:
Just a minor thing to keep in mind: if you still have the default username (i.e. username field left blank), Tomato will not keep that as Linux requires a username.

The static DHCP is one of the main features I wanted too, and it's usually only found in the higher-end routers.  Static DHCP has saved me so many headaches caused by setting static IP addresses on devices.  I'm excited to mess around with the QOS a little too.  Another feature I got going that I think may not be in the stock Linksys firmware was WDS, which let me mesh the wireless signals from my new router and another access point to increase my wireless range and allow users to move seamlessly between the two.  My wife loves me for that, as now she gets a great signal in the bedroom for her laptop.

 One thing that irritates me a little is that this router, regardless of firmwares, seems to lock me into using 192.168.1.xxx, when I prefer 192.168.0.xxx.  It's a pain in the ass and made for a bunch of extra hassle.  Why not just let me choose?  My D-Link DL-605 that got fried let me choose whatever internal addresses I wanted.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: shmokes on July 29, 2008, 01:38:07 pm --- One thing that irritates me a little is that this router, regardless of firmwares, seems to lock me into using 192.168.1.xxx, when I prefer 192.168.0.xxx.  It's a pain in the ass and made for a bunch of extra hassle.  Why not just let me choose?  My D-Link DL-605 that got fried let me choose whatever internal addresses I wanted.

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I thought you got a WRT54GL?  I have one that I can change just fine, although I didn't try using zero.  That's under dd-wrt, but I can't remember which version right now.  It was current as of 3-4 months ago.

ChadTower:

I'm pretty sure that router basically works with static DHCP even in the default firmware.  I run one of the WRT5x routers and it has no problems with the Tivos, Wii, Xbox, or Gamecube (all hard wired).  I can reboot them all I want and it always gives them back the same IP.  I notice that my laptop also always gets the same IP and I only pop that onto the network occasionally.  You have to set your IP range high enough that you'll never run out of IPs, though.  If you set it low enough that it has to recycle one it will.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 29, 2008, 01:53:37 pm ---
I'm pretty sure that router basically works with static DHCP even in the default firmware. 

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But are you specifying a static IP address on the device, i.e., in Xbox Media Center manually entering in a specific IP address which it then requests from the DHCP server every time you turn it on?  Because that's different, and not nearly so useful as static DHCP on the router.

Also, I figured out where to change it from 192.168.1.xxx to 192.168.0.xxx  :)  Though, now I may just leave it at 1 since I've already gone through the pain in the ass of changing everything that it would now be a pain in the ass to change it back.   ;D

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