This entry contains answers to questions raised by other users with regards to the installation and running of DD-WRT on D-Link routers. It also contains some troubleshooting hints and tips. You may find your answers in here.

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This entry will guide you through the flashing of DIR-320 to DD-WRT firmware. The DIR-320 uses a Broadcom chipset and they have relatively easy way of flashing. No more messy RedBoot, just use your system and TFTP the firmware in two seconds after powering up the DIR-320.

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I got hooked on the series of routers from D-Link. Seems like most of the newer offerings are all 3rd party firmware capable! The DIR-320 arrived recently and I scouted around for flashing guide and firmwares. Found a few firmwares - OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato. Couldn’t get Tomato to work though. Nevermind, enjoy the pictures first!

The DIR-320 packaging

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QoS has always been the weak point of dd-wrt. Either the capabilities do not match up to others (openwrt, tomato) or they simply don’t work.

The reason is simple.

The one that work is called Special Edition. Check out dd-wrt’s shop for v24 special. Check out the wiki for the screenshot.

Last time DARK (my group of buddies) had this crazy idea of VPN-ing our home networks. Chatted with Keny yesterday and so happened he was thinking about it too. Thought of using dd-wrt based routers to do point-to-point VPN but seems like using ms chap for authentication is not really secure. *roll eyes*

Had another crazy idea of using a small device, perhaps a D-Link DIR-300 to QoS my network. The QoS provided by the DIR-655 is not really extensive. I was looking for guaranteed bandwidth and stuffs. But seems like none of the third party firmwares offer protocol analysis. One major concern would be the switching capacity and connection session. Hope it would be more than what my DIR-655 can handle!

Time to look for a traffic shaper that has been implemented on third party devices.

Note: This guide is for users who have “bricked” their routers while trying to upgrade to dd-wrt v24 rc7 from dd-wrt v24 rc6. For flashing to dd-wrt from the stock firmware, you can refer to the Mini Flashing Guide for DIR-300.

It seems like quite a few users have “bricked” their router while trying to upgrade to the final dd-wrt v24 from rc6. Well, the device have not really bricked, it is just that the name of the flash image has changed and hence the system cannot boot pass the redboot. Not sure if it due to the new firmware, bootp was also switched to on, causing the system to take its own sweet time to get into redboot. It took around 30 to 40 seconds before I could actually telnet in.

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