Feb 22 2009
Wow, almost like it was timed…
A little while back, when I was first getting stuff together to get this site up and running I wrote about my adventures setting up an ActionTec MI424WR that I had gotten from Verizon as part of a FiOS package using OpenWRT. Although it was a hacky solution it worked reasonably well. Well, my two-year contract ended in January and now being February the router just had to take revenge on me for leaving Verizon and killed itself. That just sucks. Among other things it took my web site (this one ;-) ) offline. So after some digging I came upon the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 as a replacement. It seemed to have good support with OpenWRT, so I gave it a shot. Bottom line: great little box. I’m not using it for wireless, but it has a radio “booster” for extra range. Right now my house is saturated with WiFi and wired to the nines, but I needed a nice router I could rebuild my Internet access on. I installed the latest Kamikaze image on it. After toying around with the Web UI I quickly found out that the firewall config system was still not up to snuff. It kept exposing router ports to the the Internet, not what I had in mind, but simply rebuilding the firewall with the original script from my earlier blog post and things just clicked.
Back in business baby. Now I have a reason to finish my accumulating list of articles.
