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Before downloading the firewall, check your router's model and version. This information can be found on the back of your router. In this guide, I will use '''WRT54G Version 3.0''' for example. | Before downloading the firewall, check your router's model and version. This information can be found on the back of your router. In this guide, I will use '''WRT54G Version 3.0''' for example. | ||
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Revision as of 04:15, 8 May 2010
Introduction
In this article, you will be introduced to some of the third-party firewalls. Upgrading the firewall of your wireless router is one way to upgrade your wireless router because it will give you some rich feature.
You may want to upgrade your want to update the firewall of your wireless router if you want some of the following features. The factory default firmware may or may not have these feature enable.
- Client mode or Client bridge mode
- Repeater mode or Repeater bridge mode
- WDM mode(Wireless Distribution System)
- bandwidth monitoring
- Virtual WLANs
- Advanced QoS
- IP and MAC filtering (including time and date)
- Filtering by web site and keyword
- Stability under heavy load
- Strengthens the signal and improves signal quality
- Enable VPN Services
- Enhanced Security: WPA and WPA2, both versions for Enterprise,
- Better customizable firewall and so on.
DD-WRT is an alternate firmware available for many wireless routers. It is one of the most popular firewall. There is a paid and free versions available. DD-WRT is suitable for a great variety of WLAN routers and embedded systems.
Tomato is a free open source Linux-based firmware. The major emphasis of Tomato is on stability, speed and efficiency. Tomato includes several types of bandwidth usage charts, advanced QoS access restriction features, raised connection limits which enables P2P networking, and support for 125 High Speed Mode (marketed by Linksys as "SpeedBooster").
An diagram example of a possible network using third-party firewall
DD-WRT Installation
Before downloading the firewall, check your router's model and version. This information can be found on the back of your router. In this guide, I will use WRT54G Version 3.0 for example.
Follow the following steps to download DD-WRT firewall.
- Step 1
Go to http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database, and type you router's model, name, manufacturer and/or revision in the long search box. If you have a supported router, you router's Manufacturer, Model and Version should appear right bellow the search box.
