July 26, 2010 1:10 PM

I wonder what app people like to use most once they install optware.
rTorrent - ADOS - SAWANNA CMS - eset_upd - transmission - imageview - asterisk - sabnzbget - nzbgetweb - plowshare

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January 19, 2011 12:46 PM

So the real question, like 60% of the vote is. What is Optware? What does it do, is it easy to install, what benefit does it have for my network?

Andrew

January 19, 2011 3:34 PM

Kong, I read the article. It was way over my head so I voted What the Heck.

Netgear WNR3500L, DD-WRT Kong Mod USB/FTP/SAMBA3/OpenVPN/Proxy Build 18010M, Win XP Home SP3, Firefox 8, ethernet to GlobeSurfer II modem.

January 20, 2011 10:57 AM

Thank you Benji. That gives me a better understanding.

The question for me now is, if all my required functionality can be packaged onto the 8MB ROM, what is the advantage of installing/using Optware?

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January 23, 2011 5:23 AM

rbscairns said: Thank you Benji. That gives me a better understanding. The question for me now is, if all my required functionality can be packaged onto the 8MB ROM, what is the advantage of installing/using Optware?

You getting all this packages.

• Bash instead of shell in busybox - (LFS support)

• Automounting, Unmounting and Hotmounting of storage devices - Automatically mounts all recognized partitions and filesystem formats (including NTFS in K26).

• Network printing with Watchprinter - Plug a USB printer into your router and let anyone on the LAN (or even WAN) print.

• Torrent transmission with watchdog - Including Bittorrent transmission with Web Administration

• Pre-configured Samba share - Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or as a domain member. http://www.samba.org/

• NFS File Sharing - It is now possible to share files via NFS in a pure Linux environment.

• Portmap - Used in conjunction with the NFS Daemon. More information regarding what it does and how to implement NFS can be found here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=85211

• Xinetd - A replacement for inetd, the internet services daemon. Controls user defined network services such as printing and SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) http://www.xinetd.org/

• Pound - A lightweight open source reverse proxy program suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. http://www.apsis.ch/pound/

• Asterisk - A software that allows you to set up a voice communications server. http://www.asterisk.org/

• Lighttpd - A fast webserver with minimal memory footprint. http://www.lighttpd.net/

• Vlighttpd - Allows you to get a 2nd IP on your system and run virtual hosting there.

• Pixelserv - A super minimal webserver, it's one and only purpose is serving a 1x1 pixel transparent gif file. Using some creative firewalling (netfilter/iptables) rules you can redirect some webrequests (for adds for example) to pixelserv. http://proxytunnel.sourceforge.net/pixelserv.php

• AsiaBlock - A custom iptables firewall that is configurable to block certain countries from accessing your Webserver, FTP or just general Web surfing.

• Worldblock - Very similar to Asiablock, other than the fact that it is for blocking everything except your country. To properly use this service, you must know how to use Vi editor to add your country.

• StopHack - This CRON script will check /var/log/messages for pound entries that are malicious and put the IP's in /opt/etc/asia.spam. The AsiaBlock service MUST be running for this to work.

• Stophammer - Similar to stophack, only it provides firewall services that increase your network security in a very respectable fashion. See Service examples below to understand how it works.

• Vim with proper terminal support - Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. http://www.vim.org/about.php

• Twonky Media - Share your media on compatible devices throughout your home. http://www.twonkymedia.com/

• Siproxd - A masquerading SIP Proxy Server. Siproxd is a proxy/masquerading daemon for the SIP protocol. It handles registrations of SIP clients on a private IP network and performs rewriting of the SIP message bodies to make SIP connections work via an masquerading firewall (NAT). It allows SIP software clients (like kphone, linphone) or SIP hardware clients (Voice over IP phones which are SIP-compatible).

• News Server (Nzbget) - A command-line client/server based binary newsgrabber for nzb-files. http://nzbget.sourceforge.net/Overview

• Fixtables - This service is used to fix a firewall rule-set bug that is present in all K26 firmwares. K24 is not affected. The service also contains VITAL security measures against current DD-WRT builds! It is highly recommended to use.

• Zabbix - Zabbix offers advanced monitoring, alerting and visualization features today which are missing in other monitoring systems, even some of the best commercial ones. This service blows away SNMP, Cacti, Wallwatcher, etc. For more information, search the forums and check out the website! http://www.zabbix.com/features.php

• Reloc_syslogd - A service that is designed to extend the size of DD-WRT's syslogd and integrate kernel logging into /opt/var/log/messages

• Service tool - Control all of these services. (Usage explained below)

• Services running as other users than root

• Other various useful tools such as net and storage diagnostics..