The default firmware that comes preinstalled with the router, is good enough for the general consensus, however, we the tech geeks should explore some custom firmware as well. There are various custom ...

A flaw in OpenWrt's Attended Sysupgrade feature used to build custom, on-demand firmware images could have allowed for the distribution of malicious firmware packages. OpenWrt is a highly customizable ...

With each passing year, hardware devices grow less dependent on proprietary components and more reliant on open source technologies. Network routers are among the main beneficiaries of this trend, ...

In context: OpenWrt's history began in 2004 when US hardware manufacturer Linksys built the firmware for its WRT54G series of wireless routers. The firmware contained code shared through a GNU license ...

In this series of articles, I'm showing how to build a transparent firewall using OpenWrt (Linux) running on an inexpensive Linksys WRT54GL wireless router. In Part I, I explained why firewalls are ...