Thursday, August 23, 2007

Getting Started with DD-WRT

A friend asked me how about getting started with DD-WRT, so here is the list:

Step 1: See if your device is supported
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

Step 2: Read up
FAQ
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Index:FAQ
Installation
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation

Here is a link to the forums
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/

Step 3: Download
DD-WRT
Download
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads.php

Step 4:
Look at some Tutorials
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorials

Step 5:
Why he was interested in dd-wrt is the ability to use ssh tunnels with Putty, here are the links for that.

Putty
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


Tunneling VNC over SSH with PuTTY
http://martybugs.net/smoothwall/puttyvnc.cgi

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