How To Install and Configure OpenVPN On Your DD-WRT Router

Nov 23, 2011 What is DD-WRT? DD-WRT is a Linux-based firmware project developed to enhance the performance and features of wireless Internet routers. Launched in 2005, DD-WRT is one of the most popular alternative router firmwares due to its longevity of existence and support for a large array of devices. Run DD-WRT on an old PC - The Silicon Underground May 24, 2011

Is anyone using an old desktop to route traffic using the x86 DD-WRT builds? Thinking of doing this in order to get full provider bandwidth behind an OpenVPN connection. Looking for some know how before I go all in. I have an old Dell box that would be a very good candidate.

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Introduction. For those of you that want to build DDWRT on x86 architecture (for example on ESXi) here is an iso for you to boot from. Details. Filename: Core6.0-ddwrt-14896.iso Size: 26421248 (26M) OpenWrt Project: OpenWrt on x86 hardware aka PC or Servers From the terminal, detect how is called (sda, sdb, sdc, etc) the drive you want by writing sudo blkid or sudo lsblk and then write the image with good old dd tool dd if=openwrt-18.06.1-x86-64-combined-squashfs.img of=/dev/sdX where sdX is the name of the drive you want to write the image on.