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Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.

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Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
OpenWrt Linux GPL, etc. 2025-02-06 [1] 17,042[2]
Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 [3] 422,643[4] Abandoned
DD-WRT OpenWrt 2019-11-09[5] 27,104[6]
LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc. N/A 72,901[7] Merged with OpenWrt
RutOS OpenWrt GPL, etc. 2025-03-25[8] 499,954[9] Operating System for Teltonika networking products
LibreCMC OpenWrt 2024-12-26[10] 2,099,9734[11]
Roofnet OpenWrt N/A N/A N/A Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt, Debian 2017-01-02 [12] 3,585,093[13]
HyperWRT Linux GPL 2005-02-07 N/A Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2025-02-27[14] 360,330[15]
Oleg ASUS Original GPL 2008-03-30 N/A http://oleg.wl500g.info/

Features

Project QoS Guest AP VPN client VPN server tor addblock by domain/ip Mesh Package manager
OpenWrt Opkg (3500)
DebWRT Dpkg (23168?)

Devices

Project Total x86 ARM MIPS
OpenWrt 1875+[16] x x x
DD-WRT many [17] x x
libreCMC 11 [18]

Other

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
Zeroshell Linux 2021-01-16[19] 466,964[20] Abandoned[19]
m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15[21] 439,509[22] Abandoned[21]
OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2025-03-11[23] 152,329[24]
pfsense FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2 2023-12-07[25] 26,342[26]

See also

References

  1. ^ "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
  2. ^ openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  3. ^ "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
  4. ^ commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  5. ^ "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
  6. ^ dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  7. ^ lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  8. ^ "Teltonika Networks - LTE Routers, Gateways & Modems for IoT". teltonika-networks.com. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  9. ^ teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  10. ^ "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  11. ^ librecmc.org at Alexa
  12. ^ "debwrt rootfs download".
  13. ^ debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  14. ^ "Index of /downloads/". freshtomato.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  15. ^ polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  16. ^ "[OpenWrt Wiki] Table of Hardware". openwrt.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  17. ^ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
  18. ^ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
  19. ^ a b DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Zeroshell". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on 2025-01-25. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  20. ^ zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  21. ^ a b "m0n0wall - End of the m0n0wall project". m0n0.ch. Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  22. ^ m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  23. ^ "25.1 "Ultimate Unicorn" Series — OPNsense documentation". docs.opnsense.org. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  24. ^ opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  25. ^ "Versions of pfSense software and FreeBSD | pfSense Documentation". docs.netgate.com. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  26. ^ pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
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