Let me start by saying I tested this on both 2.0 and 2.2 WRT54G models. The problems I noted were on the 2.2 hardware. I only quickly ran this on my 2.0 box as this is my home gateway and the wife and family get upset when the phones dont work!!! EWRT .3 Final report - for now After playing with EWRT on a couple Linksys WRT54G (V2.2) for a week or so, I finally fell back to a more stale build - DD-WRT A couple problems nagged with EWRT. First, the captive portal has a 'bug/feature' which requires it to do its IP mangling twice (and call the web portal twice) before the IP request is finally forwarded. I could live with this. The big one has caused me to return one router - thinking the hardware gave out - but turns out to be something in the way EWRT configures the WAN in certain situations. The WAN light on the front would flash VERY rapidly - not like the normal on/off you would see when it is connected to thecable modem.. I could not ping out the WAN interface either. Did not mattter if I assigned static values for the WAN or let DHCP do its thing. The only thing in common for these failed routers was EWRT. I did factory resets - cleared NVRAM, used the linksys factory upgrade tool to re-flash 3.x.x, then put DDWRT back on and the device was OK again.... I spoke to Brian (DDWRT) - he is adding chillispot (another captive portal thing) into DDWRT. He has a build but wanted to do more testing before he gave it to me. I think the thing I like the most about EWRT is the R/W file system and the ability to have the captive portal web code local on the router. Chillispot will require an external web server. I am not sure if this has to be on the local LAN.... You have to love Open Source. Someone will put one together with all the features we want!! I wish I had the time and resources to do it myself.... Botttom line - for customer setups I will continue to use Hyperwrt - a pair is going out the door today all setup for WDS. For my own network, my 3 WRT54G's will all have DDWRT. The third router will continue to be my test bed for any new releases I want to try out. Dan
