Software:Comparison of router software projects

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Router software requires updating to stay secure, this comparison provides an overview of third party options.

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General

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
OpenWrt Linux GPL, etc. 2023-05-01 [1] 0017042 17,042

[2]

Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 [3] 0422643 422,643

[4]

DD-WRT OpenWrt 2019-11-09[5] 0027104 27,104

[6]

LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc. N/A 0072901 72,901

[7]

Merged with OpenWrt
RutOS OpenWrt GPL, etc. 2020-01-15[8] 0499954 499,954

[9]

Operating System for Teltonika networking products
LibreCMC OpenWrt 2018-04-02[10] 2099973 2,099,9734

[11]

Roofnet OpenWrt N/A N/A N/A Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt, Debian 2017-01-02 [12] 3585093 3,585,093

[13]

HyperWRT Linux GPL 2005-02-07 N/A Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2021-03-17 [14] 0360330 360,330

[15]

Oleg ASUS Original GPL 2008-03-30 N/A http://oleg.wl500g.info/

Features

Project QoS Guest AP VPN client VPN server tor addblock by domain/ip Mesh Package manager
OpenWrt Opkg (3500)
DebWRT Dpkg (23168?)

Devices

Project Total x86 ARM MIPS
OpenWrt 499 [16] x x x
DD-WRT many [17] x x
libreCMC 11 [18]

Other

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
Zeroshell Linux 2018-01-02 [19] 0466964 466,964

[20]

for SBCs raspberry / orange pi
m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15 0439509 439,509

[21]

Abandoned
OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2021-03-31 [22] 0152329 152,329

[23]

pfsense FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2 2023-11-16[24] 0026342 26,342

[25]

See also

References

  1. "OpenWrt website". https://www.openwrt.org/. 
  2. openwrt.org at Alexa
  3. "Download Commotion Router". https://www.commotionwireless.net/download/routers/. 
  4. commotionwireless.net at Alexa
  5. "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". https://dd-wrt.com/support/other-downloads/. 
  6. dd-wrt.com at Alexa
  7. lede-project.org at Alexa
  8. "RutOS". https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/RutOS. 
  9. teltonika-networks.com at Alexa
  10. project, RISCi_ATOM, Robert Call, The libreCMC. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre distro."]. https://librecmc.org/librecmc/downloads/snapshots/. 
  11. librecmc.org at Alexa
  12. "debwrt rootfs download". http://downloads.debwrt.net/rootfs/snapshots/mips/stretch/. 
  13. debwrt.net at Alexa
  14. "2021-freshtomato.org>downloads>freshtomato-mips>2021". https://freshtomato.org/downloads/freshtomato-mips/2021/. 
  15. polarcloud.com at Alexa
  16. openwrt devices
  17. "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices. 
  18. libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/src/v1.4/docs/Supported_Hardware.md. 
  19. "zeroshell download". https://zeroshell.org/download/. 
  20. zeroshell.org at Alexa
  21. m0n0.ch at Alexa
  22. "Blog - OPNsense, Your Next Open Source Firewall". https://opnsense.org/blog/. 
  23. opnsense.org at Alexa
  24. "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Versions_of_pfSense_and_FreeBSD. 
  25. pfsense.org at Alexa