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Comparison of router software projects

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

Embedded

General

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
OpenWrt Linux GPL, etc 2018-08-18 [1] 17,042[2]
Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 [3] 422,643[4]
DD-WRT OpenWrt 2008-08-22[5] 27,104[6]
LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc N/A 72,901[7] Merged with OpenWrt
LibreCMC OpenWrt 2018-04-02[8] 2,099,9734[9]
Roofnet OpenWrt N/A N/A N/A Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt, Debian 2017-01-02 [10] 3,585,093[11]
HyperWRT Linux GPL 2005-02-07 N/A Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2010-06-28 [12] 360,330[13]

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 409 [14]
DD-WRT many [15]
libreCMC 11 [16]


Other

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
Zeroshell Linux 2018-01-02 [17] 466,964[18] for SBCs raspberry / orange pi
m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15 439,509[19] Abandoned
OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2018-05-31 [20] 152,329[21]
pfsense FreeBSD 11.1 p10 ALv2 2018-05-14[22] 26,342[23]

See also

References

  1. ^ "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
  2. ^ openwrt.org at Alexa
  3. ^ "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
  4. ^ commotionwireless.net at Alexa
  5. ^ "DD-WRT  » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
  6. ^ dd-wrt.com at Alexa
  7. ^ lede-project.org at Alexa
  8. ^ project, RISCi_ATOM, Robert Call, The libreCMC. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ librecmc.org at Alexa
  10. ^ "debwrt rootfs download".
  11. ^ debwrt.net at Alexa
  12. ^ "Tomato Firmware - Browse /tomato/1_28 at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net.
  13. ^ polarcloud.com at Alexa
  14. ^ openwrt devices
  15. ^ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
  16. ^ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
  17. ^ "zeroshell download".
  18. ^ zeroshell.org at Alexa
  19. ^ m0n0.ch at Alexa
  20. ^ "Blog - OPNsense, Your Next Open Source Firewall". opnsense.org.
  21. ^ opnsense.org at Alexa
  22. ^ "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". doc.pfsense.org.
  23. ^ pfsense.org at Alexa