Re: Ewrt-0.4 released!

Hey Troy,  forgot to comment:  Nice release email!   Great work.

-Irving

Troy M Jaqua wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am pleased to announce that I have just finished a new release of Ewrt,
> our open-source firmware distribution for Linksys WRT-based routers
> integrating the NoCatSplash captive portal.
> 
> I am calling this release ewrt-0.4, as it now adds support for all
> WRT54G/GS version 4 routers and the WRT54GL which are now becoming
> available.  We now can build firmeware for all WRT devices except the
> latest version 5's, which have moved to the vxWorks OS.  Please do not buy
> these devices if you are a strong Open Source supporter.  This was done
> primarily by taking our original changesets (based upon the Linksys 3.01.3
> codebase) and porting the code onto the latest WRT54GSv4 code from
> Linksys.
> 
> This also means we now gain, in addition to added support for all of these
> routers: the latest security updates, wireless driver updates, and
> Internationalization of the web interface.  In addition, we provide a
> highly modified and developed version of NoCatSplash which is much
> improved against all sorts of buffer overflows, malformed HTTP requests,
> and the like, as  compared with the code available from any other source
> today.
> 
> Important new features have been added to NoCatSplash as well, including
> the ability to whitelist a given set of MAC addresses to be passed through
> without authentication, for example servers or private machines which
> should not need access control, or when you have anouther router running
> it's own portal behind this one on your LAN.  We have also added some
> things to the native web interface to make it easier to setup and control
> the NoCatSplash captive portal.
> 
> I hope you all enjoy this new release, and please don't hesitate to send
> comments, bug reports, etc. to our developer's list at:
> [email protected]
> 
> For more information about this project and instructions for getting the
> code or binary distributions, please visit:
> http://www.portless.net/menu/ewrt/
> 
> 
> Troy Jaqua
> Primary Developer of the EWRT Project
> Portless Networks
> http://www.portless.net
> 
> 
> 


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