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 |
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OpenWrt | Linux | GPL, etc | 2019-01-31 [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 |
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OpenWrt | Opkg (3500) | |||||||
DebWRT | Dpkg (23168?) |
Devices
Project | Total | x86 | ARM | MIPS |
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OpenWrt | 409 [14] | |||
DD-WRT | many [15] | |||
libreCMC | 11 [16] |
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Other
Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
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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 | 2019-01-07[22] | 26,342[23] |
See also
References
- ^ "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
- ^ openwrt.org at Alexa
- ^ "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
- ^ commotionwireless.net at Alexa
- ^ "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
- ^ dd-wrt.com at Alexa
- ^ lede-project.org at Alexa
- ^ project, RISCi_ATOM, Robert Call, The libreCMC. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ librecmc.org at Alexa
- ^ "debwrt rootfs download".
- ^ debwrt.net at Alexa
- ^ "Tomato Firmware - Browse /tomato/1_28 at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net.
- ^ polarcloud.com at Alexa
- ^ openwrt devices
- ^ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
- ^ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
- ^ "zeroshell download".
- ^ zeroshell.org at Alexa
- ^ m0n0.ch at Alexa
- ^ "Blog - OPNsense, Your Next Open Source Firewall". opnsense.org.
- ^ opnsense.org at Alexa
- ^ "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". doc.pfsense.org.
- ^ pfsense.org at Alexa