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When I bought this router I really did not realize that it will open a whole new world to me ...
For a long time I wanted a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device so I can keep my files in a centralized way, but the price of these devices always was so high that it kept me away from buying one ...
So when I've found out that this router has 2 USB ports and that a custom firmware can be installed on it to support additional services I decided immediately that I'll buy one of these small wonders :) ...
On the very first day I've installed Oleg's custom firmware and started digging into the firmware. It comes with a balanced set of features, it has telnet, ssh, ftp, samba, and other goodies that you might need. So it was perfect.
However over the years the loss of several hard disks - which obviously resulted in quite a few times loosing my precious data - convinced me that I simply need a RAID set to protect my data.
As the custom firmware does not support RAID sets I downloaded Oleg's sources for the firmware and rebuilt it adding a few other things that i found necessary ;)
This way i have:
* RAID1 support in the router (and have 2 hard disks linked in one array)
* CD/DVD support
* automount support
* wtmp support (to have historical track of logins)
Other stuff on the router:
* there is a cool script which periodically checks for brute force attacks and denies the source IP of accessing the router anymore.
* there is a torrent client with web based UI
* lighttp with php support can be installed on it, and can be used to stream all your music (using with Winamp + Bento skin's browser works like a charm!)
* there is mini-sendmail to send notifications to yourself anywhere you are ..
Hardware 'upgrades':
I've opened the box and installed a card reading into it and plugged a 4GByte microdrive so I will have a persistent 'hard disk' in the router - and in the next couple of days I will install 128MB of memory (instead of having only 32M ...). { I will keep you posted about this ;) }
Bottomline: if you need a stable and really good router, by this one.
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