I’d given up on getting DD-WRT flashed on this router. With the help of one of my colleagues at work we were able to get DD-WRT flashed!
Omar Davis you rock!
What got it to Flash
Success came with these work arounds:
1. Disable Windows firewall on the command line: netsh firewall set opmode disable
2. Using the ASUS firmware update tool you’ll have to place the .trx file on the root of the C: drive.
Multiple WLANs
The goal here is to have two WLANs. The first one is my secured home network (WPA2) and the second is a unsecured guest network with restrictions. I made use of the extensive documentation here. The link has several firewall rules that are useful. The only one I am currently using is preventing access from the guest network to my home network. I’ll perhaps enable VPN access from the guess network to my home network at some point.
I don’t think my neighbor knows that I can tell when he’s using my wifi. I don’t mind at all but torrenting is a no no so I’ll have to put some additional access restrictions on the guest network :-).
VPN – Road Warrior
I’ve configured the PPTP VPN server to allow road warrior access to my Home network. [Completed]
pptp settings
VPN – OpenVPN Client
The holy grail is to be able to connect to my VPN provider via openvpn and route selected traffic across that interface. [in-progress]