[wayland]

Anyone tried putting DD-WRT on a Raspberry PI? This is a Broadcom ARM11 device.

[Sash]

only 1 ethernet port so its not possible to be used as router.

[wayland]

That sounds more like a challenge than a reason.
I have a WiFi stick plugged into mine which makes two ports. Do that virtual WiFi thing and you have a WAN port a WLAN and an Eth. Alternatively stick a USB Eth in it.

The point here is that the PI is new and exciting and very popular but the Linksys WRT54G is a bit old.

There is probably a very quick and dirty way of doing it. Get Raspbian and move the dd-wrt specific stuff to it. You have all the Plug and Play you could wish for and functionality galore. They say it's about the same power as the original x-box, I don't know if that is true.

[BDKives]

I am currently using the Raspberry Pi as a firewall. I use a USB to Ethernet adapter borrowed from my Wii, for the LAN side of the firewall. You can also use a WiFi USB dongle.
The IPFire firewall works well. http://downloads.ipfire.org/latest, click on ARM and use "Image for the armv5tel architecture". I am also working on using vLans with a Smart Switch for the LAN, WiFi, and DMZ Lans.

Since FreeBSD has been released for the Pi, there are people working on Smoothwall for Pi.

And the good people at OpenWRT have a version for Pi http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi . Such a shame because I've always prefered DD-WRT to OpenWRT!

If you wanted to start with a know Pi distribution, I would suggest Arch Linux. It's already stripped down, so it's very fast.

[PhiDeck]

[facsi]

Well, it actually dont need to run dd-wrt. You can run it as a server and run tranmission, webserver, pixel server, asterisk, dlna, and all the linux goodies. Since I can do it with a very small sized pc, I lost interest in any WRT for routers. I was going to buy a high end router but not anymore.
I would like to see the raspberry pi or anyother similar running something more robust like pfsense.

[wayland]

Things seem to have opened up since dd-wrt was all the rage. True that routers come with plenty of Ethernet connections but things like the PI come with an ever growing choice of operating systems, add ons and plenty of oomph. I just thought it would be a cool route into the Raspberry PI for dd-wrt users.

The one armed router is a good idea. I have a VLAN switch doing very little so with a bit of tinkering I would be able to turn my switch into a router by plugging in a PI.