[olug] Linksys router Vulnerability

[DYNATRON tech]

thank you chris.

i knew a little bit about the situation, but i had not gotten that in-depth.
i see what you mean now luke. that is a bit of a downer.
however, i still have to say that it is a good router.

linksys (cisco) must have sold millions of these things.
i have to give them credit for bringing wireless to the masses at an
affordable cost.
if cutting the memory in half is what made it affordable, i'd say it's for
the greater good.
if they cut the memory, and not the price, then yeah.....the WRT sucks!


On 3/11/08, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:14 AM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > what problems have you had with them, luke?
>
> I think Luke is refering to the fact that starting with the v5 WRT54G
> Linksys moved from a Linux based firmware to a minimal embedded
> VxWorks OS.  At the same time, they cut the RAM and flash in half
> (16MB of RAM to 8GMB of RAM, 4MB of flash to 2MB of flash).  This made
> the custom firmware projects like OpenWRT and such unusable (at least
> initially, a couple of them managed to release stripped down, less
> functional, variants for the v5 on).
>
> On the plus side, Linksys released the WRT54GL shortly after the v5
> WRT54G was released.  The L variant is basically just a renamed v4
> WRT54G sold to keep those wishing to run custom firmware happy (the
> 'L' allegedly stands for Linux).  It's a small thing, but I was quite
> impressed when Linksys did this, as I expect that the number of people
> who really loaded custom firmware (of which I am one) is an extremely
> small part of their WRT54G customer base.
>
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> Christopher
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