DD-WRT
DD-WRT is Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points. Originally designed for the Linksys [WRT54G series], it now runs on a wide variety of models. DD-WRT is one of a handful of List of [router firmware projects|third-party firmware projects] designed to replace manufacturer's original firmware with custom firmware offering additional features or functionality.
Sebastian Gottschall, a.k.a. "BrainSlayer", is the founder and primary maintainer of the DD-WRT project. The letters "DD" in the project name are the German license-plate letters for vehicles from Dresden, where the development team lived. The remainder of the name was taken from the Linksys WRT54G model router, a home router popular in 2002–2004. WRT is assumed to be a reference to 'wireless router'.
Buffalo Technology and other companies have shipped routers with factory-installed, customized versions of DD-WRT. In January 2016, Linksys started to offer DD-WRT firmware for their routers.
Features
Among the of DD-WRT are- access control
- bandwidth monitoring
- quality of service
- WPA/WPA2/WPA3
- iptables and IPset & SPI firewall
- Universal Plug and Play
- Wake-on-LAN
- Dynamic DNS
- AnchorFree VPN
- wireless access point configuration
- WDS - Wireless Distribution System
- APuP - Access Point Micro Peering
- multiple SSIDs
- overclocking
- transmission power control
- Transmission BitTorrent client
- Tor
- router linking
- ssh
- telnet
- RADIUS support
- XLink Kai networks
- OpenVPN
- WireGuard