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Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 19, 2005 10:23 UTC (Fri) by zezaz (guest, #5465)
Parent article: Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

Regarding features, there is basically only one i really miss in OpenWRT: static DHCP (lets you assignate fixed IPs and DNS names to hosts based on their MAC address). Once they add it, i believe i will drop Sveasoft to OpenWRT.

One cute feature of OpenWRT i miss in Sveasoft is that it is package-based: that enables smooth upgrades...

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Posted Aug 19, 2005 10:34 UTC (Fri) by fghorow (subscriber, #5229) [Link]

Check out the dnsmasq package (ipkg getable for openWrt). The "dns" in the name aside, it also does DHCP with a fairly simple configuration. In particular, you can map MACs to IP numbers...

Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 19, 2005 12:29 UTC (Fri) by hildeb (subscriber, #6532) [Link]

I'm quite sure you can do static DHCP with the dhcpd OpenWRT comes along
with...

Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 19, 2005 16:22 UTC (Fri) by zezaz (guest, #5465) [Link]

Best thanks fghorow and hildeb. I missed that point in the OpenWRT doc: now i only have to migrate :)