PPTP with DD-WRT blows chunks
I recently purchased another Linksys WRT54GL and flashed it with the latest release of DD-WRT. Basic configuration was a breeze, but when I tried to configure the router to make a connection to a PPTP server, the wheels came off. Badly. The various forums and bug trackers are rife with reports of these problems, but the developers seem to be oblivious. Great.
The dysfunction inherent in this project is described here: DD-WRT - An affront to the good will of the F/OSS community.
If anyone knows of a firmware for Linksys routers that can do PPTP properly, let me know. Tomato doesn’t seem to cut it (no PPTP support). As far as I could tell from the documentation, OpenWrt doesn’t support the wireless part of the Linksys when used with a 2.6 kernel. I still need to look at HyperWRT and friends.
Am I the only person who wishes that Mikrotik would port RouterOS to the Linksys and other routers? I’m sure they’d sell tens of thousands of copies. Might cut into their hardware sales though…
Update: Looked at thibor’s hyperwrt. Seems to support PPTP for the WAN interface, but this doesn’t do what I need (DD-WRT could do what I need, but it doesn’t work). Also looked at the Mikrotik Routerboards again. They really need to package up one of those things into a little box like the Linksys, include a level 4 RouterOS license and sell the whole package for somewhere between $80 and $120. I’d buy it.