#ALTERNATIVE DD WRT DOWNLOAD LOCATION INSTALL#

Using this procedure can brick your router, as in make your router unusable, we take no responsibility for any damages that may be caused directly or other wise due to the use of the procedures below.

However if you’re a true geek you probably subscribe to the ideology that, he who can destroy a thing, controls a thing, and only true geeks do that Prerequisites Warning: Tread lightly… keep in mind that incorrect usage of the modification kit, can leave you with a router that needs de-brick-ing (as in turn it into a useless brick).

Once you have followed this procedure it should be relevantly simple to adapt it for other packages installations. Optionally with support for TLS smtp (a.k.a.

#ALTERNATIVE DD WRT DOWNLOAD LOCATION INSTALL#

Install the ssmtp package with NVRAM based generated configurations.

Install the knockd package and its dependencies.

While instructions for this procedure, are detailed on DD-WRT’s wiki and on the developer’s site, we aim to make this guide a copy & paste procedure that anyone can use to achieve the following goals: In addition, this method has the added advantage of relieving you from the JFFS dependency for packages installation, which for routers with only 4MB of flash is a real problem. The most predominant reason to use this method is because lately DD-WRT’s support for the Openwrt IPKG packages has shifted towards routers that have hard drives (via USB), which makes the mod-kit the only consistently working way of installing the IPKG packages successfully for cases where an HD is unavailable. Making changes this way, with the aid of the provided scripts, becomes a simple matter of downloading, replacing and deleting some files. The firmware modification kit enables one to make modifications to the firmware without compiling it from source.

Alternative dd wrt download location