Comment by spash

Besides DD-WRT, which can be at times quite flaky a unreliable on WRT54GL with its outdated OS base and a slow UI (and also a real pain to keep track on the few working firmware revisions as time progresses over the years; many DD-WRT users and the DD-WRT site will sadly keep suggesting to use half a decade old firmware for it [1][2][3] and any 'official' activity seems to have stopped years ago) and the Open-WRT which sadly hasn't supported WRT54GL for the last several generations [4] despite its by now somewhat ironic name, there's also Tomato by Shibby [5] (note: This is a fork of the original 'well known' Tomato that stopped its development half a decade ago - though surprisingly people sill run even that one), which is amazingly supported today with regular and frequent updates [6], latest security fixes and modern revisions of base software and OS tools, with properly working kernel 2.6-generation, IPv6, QoS and not at the very least with the staple slick Tomato configuration interface. If you happen to run a WRT54GL, you must give Shibby's Tomato a try sometime to see what this piece of hardware can still do.

Disclaimer: I'm by no means affiliated, but run WRT54GL hardware actively and at times I'm still regularly amazed at what Shibby can squeeze out of the mere 4MB of flash space and a hardware that wouldn't properly run a smartwatch alarm applet in 2016.

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[1] - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT54GL

[2] - http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486

[3] - http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=288371

  If you're lucky, you may also end up with gems like this:
  > Malachi - DD-WRT Guru
  > Your router was made in the 1800's. Why do you need firmware made yesterday.

[4] - https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g

[5] - http://tomato.groov.pl/

[6] - http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=78