[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G bridging

[Owen Berry]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:11:25AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> >On Monday 06 November 2006 10:32 am, Brian Henning wrote:
> >>Hiya Gang,
> >>   If I pick up another WRT54G[L] and manage to successfully flash it
> >>with OpenWRT, 
> >
> >Curious -- what's the benefits of flashing the access point with new 
> >firmware? 
> 
> For my case, I didn't know that the factory WRT firmware would bridge 
> itself with another WRT -- will it?
> 
> I suspect in the general case, people do this because 1) they want 
> feature X which factory firmware doesn't provide and 2) they can.

Or you may have a distrust of Linksys' competence/priorities with regard
to the firmware for the WRT54GL - both of mine came with a newer
firmware than is available from their web site. Of course, having a lot
of your users using another firmware might remove the motivation to keep
things up to date too.

Owen