muaveri@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoAlternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlinbinaryfork.comexternal-linkmessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1336arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1331arrow-down1external-linkAlternative router firmware: what are DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato & ASUSwrt Merlinbinaryfork.commuaveri@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square70linkfedilinkfile-text
Just like the operating system on your computer & cell phone, you can change the software running on your router.
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 years agoRun a packet capture on the WAN side of any cheap Chinese router. See if you can keep track of all the weird IPs it tries to contact.
Run a packet capture on the WAN side of any cheap Chinese router. See if you can keep track of all the weird IPs it tries to contact.