Features

15 January 2009
by Amain
modified 6 February 2009

Features in DebWRT. DebWRT is based on an OpenWrt kernel and on Debian Etch for MIPSEL.

  • Kernel 2.4 and 2.6 for bcm47xx (mipsel)
    • OpenWrt Kernel 2.6
      • Version 2.6.28
      • b43 driver from wireless kernel  snapshot 10 January 2009
      • Broadcom Firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
      • USB EHCI HCD
      • Booting from USB-storage device
      • Bootwait of 10 seconds to wait for USB-disk/stick to become ready
      • Serial Console (early tty)
    • OpenWrt Kernel 2.4
        • Version 2.4.35
        • Broadcom wl.o driver with wl, wlc and nas
        • USB EHCI HCD
        • USB-storage
        • Bootwait of 10 seconds to wait for USB-disk/stick to become ready
        • Serial Console (early tty)
    • Debian Base root filesystemimage
      • Debian Etch base installation
      • Additional interesting packages (SSHd, thttpd, tcpdump, screen, strace, iptables, etc)
      • Additional pre-compiled Debian MIPSEL packages:
        • hostapd 0.6.6 (kernel 2.6)
        • wireless-tools 0.29
        • nvram (read the nvrwam – kernel 2.4 only)
        • robocfg (switch configuration)
        • broadcom-wl (wl, wcl, nas for kernel 2.4)
      • Wireless WPA1 / WPA2 /WEP (see b43 notes for kernel 2.6)
      • MAC based authentication for wireless networks
      • Basis Packet Filter firewall with Masquarading LAN clients to Internet
      • DNS/DHCP server
      • SSH and telnet servers
      • Webserver
      • Statistics webpage showing mounted USB disks and network information
      • Automounting of  partitions on USB sticks/disks (ext3, ext2, reiserfs, ntfs and optionally vfat)
      • 2 default network setup examples
        1. All ethernet ports listen are seen as 1 interface: eth0, wireless interface separate as wlan0
        2. WAN interface and LAN/Wireless bridged – like OpenWRT’s default network configuration
          • 1 WAN ethernet port VLAN #100 as eth0_wan
          • 4 LAN ethernet ports VLAN #101 as eth0_lan
          • 1 wireless interface wlan0
          • wlan0 and eth0_lan bridged into lanbridge