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<div style="">My advice:<br>
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If you use the standard firmware, be sure to keep it up to date and configure it appropriately.<br>
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If you use a custom firmware, be sure to keep it up to date and configure it appropriately.<br>
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Therefore, pick the one that updates the best and has all the configuration options you need and as few as possible of the configuration options you don't.<br>
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Personally, I run a basic Linksys WAP. It's locked out of the rest of the my network (DMZ) and nothing that connects to it can touch anything else. I removed it from the global mesh network and set it to use a MAC filter (which doesn't provide much security),
hides the SSID (same thing) and WPA2 (which provides more). I don't need it to any more, so I didn't install a custom firmware.<br>
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If I needed more, I would have used a custom firmware. It's much like when I need to edit a file, I open VIM. If I needed to edit a file while I decompile it and chat in IRC, I'd use EMACS. ;)<br>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><font style="font-family: Courier New;" color="#888888" size="1">-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP<br>
<a href="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net" target="_blank"><span class="il">morej@alliancetechnologies.net</span></a>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF657309"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [cialug-bounces@cialug.org] on behalf of Kenneth Younger [kyounger@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 15:03<br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Cialug] new wireless router: default firmware or custom?<br>
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<div>I'm in the market to buy a new Wireless Router with all the bells and whistles.<br>
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I've long be interested in running a custom firmware, because I know they deliver a lot of functionality that the manufacturer's can't -- at least that's how it was a while back when I was looking into it.<br>
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What are your opinions on this? Do you feel like it's necessary to use these anymore, other than from a hobbyist perspective? (ok Josh, I'll give you that they are probably a bit more secure too :)<br>
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-Kenny<br>
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