I just wanted to put a shout out to OpenWRT, a third-party router firmware that runs on a lot of routers. Most OEM routers are running embedded Linux already, OpenWRT replaces it with a more featureful OS.
The OS backup isn't a binary, proprietary blob - it's a tar file of the configuration files by directory. I screwed up my configuration and the DNS server broke, but I was able to copy over the configs via SSH and was up and running quickly.
| Sysop: | deepend |
|---|---|
| Location: | Calgary, Alberta |
| Users: | 315 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 00:26:24 |
| Calls: | 2,574 |
| Files: | 6,179 |
| D/L today: |
27 files (10,533K bytes) |
| Messages: | 480,338 |