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List of software created and maintained by people other than the manufacturer of the product. The extent of support for (and testing on) particular hardware varies from project to project.
17: 126: 189: 901: 1448: 587: 1050: 1412: 345: 184: 1017: 320: 264: 123: 542: 224:- m0n0wall is abandoned, but it was built on FreeBSD and boots off of flash storage or CD ROM media in under 12 megabytes. 1422: 1453: 580: 261:- Advanced firmware written from scratch with customizable firewall and optional packages in the form of add ons. 1458: 1043: 1227: 1100: 931: 896: 106:– A free OpenWrt-based Linux distribution for a range of Broadcom and Atheros chipset based wireless routers. 51: 1473: 1468: 1335: 926: 612: 891: 573: 290: 103: 67: 1463: 1036: 148: 461: 1075: 969: 916: 911: 370: 360: 286: 178: 113: 1443: 1407: 1012: 704: 657: 886: 164: 1277: 1255: 1153: 941: 921: 607: 596: 8: 355: 714: 207: 174: 167:
firmware but add features such as transmit power, port triggers, scripts, telnet, etc.
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Index

List of wireless router firmware projects
custom-firmware
wireless routers
OpenWrt
FOSS
SquashFS
JFFS2
opkg
GPL
LEDE
LEDE
OpenWrt
v. 18.06 (2018)
Commotion Wireless
DD-WRT
Gargoyle
LibreCMC
FSF
Roofnet
MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Meraki
Cisco
DebWRT
OpenWrt
package management system
Debian
HyperWRT
WRT54G and WRT54GS
Tomato

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