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
[edit]General
[edit]Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
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OpenWrt | Linux | GPL, etc. | 2023-05-01 [1] | 17,042[2] | |
Commotion Wireless | OpenWrt | 2014-10-13 [3] | 422,643[4] | ||
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. | 2020-01-15[8] | 499,954[9] | Operating System for Teltonika networking products |
LibreCMC | OpenWrt | 2018-04-02[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 | 2021-03-17 [14] | 360,330[15] | ||
Oleg | ASUS Original | GPL | 2008-03-30 | N/A | http://oleg.wl500g.info/ |
Features
[edit]Project | QoS | Guest AP | VPN client | VPN server | tor | addblock by domain/ip | Mesh | Package manager |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OpenWrt | Opkg (3500) | |||||||
DebWRT | Dpkg (23168?) |
Devices
[edit]Project | Total | x86 | ARM | MIPS |
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OpenWrt | 499 [16] | x | x | x |
DD-WRT | many [17] | x | x | |
libreCMC | 11 [18] |
Other
[edit]Project | Parent project | Software license | Latest release | Alexa rank | About |
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Zeroshell | Linux | 2018-01-02 [19] | 466,964[20] | for SBCs raspberry / orange pi | |
m0n0wall | FreeBSD | 2014-01-15 | 439,509[21] | Abandoned | |
OPNsense | FreeBSD | Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License | 2024-01-30[22] | 152,329[23] | |
pfsense | FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT | ALv2 | 2023-11-16[24] | 26,342[25] |
See also
[edit]- Debian
- FreeBSD
- Kali Linux
- Linux kernel
- List of free and open-source software packages
- List of router and firewall distributions
- List of router firmware projects
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- Software
- Tails
References
[edit]- ^ "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
- ^ openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
- ^ commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
- ^ dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "RutOS". wiki.teltonika-networks.com.
- ^ teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine 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[permanent dead link ] at Alexa
- ^ "debwrt rootfs download".
- ^ debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "2021-freshtomato.org>downloads>freshtomato-mips>2021". freshtomato.org.
- ^ polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ openwrt devices
- ^ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
- ^ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
- ^ "zeroshell download".
- ^ zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "24.1 "Savvy Shark" Series — OPNsense documentation". opnsense.org.
- ^ opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
- ^ "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". doc.pfsense.org.
- ^ pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa