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: | Thumper |
|---|---|
| Location: | Copperopolis, CA |
| Users: | 5 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 32:26:18 |
| Calls: | 157 |
| Files: | 4,897 |
| D/L today: |
102 files (10,211K bytes) |
| Messages: | 53,782 |