Comparison of router software projects

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

Embedded

General

Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About
OpenWrt Linux GPL, etc. 2023-05-01 [1] 17,042[2]
Commotion Wireless OpenWrt 2014-10-13 [3] 422,643[4]
DD-WRT OpenWrt 2019-11-09[5] 27,104[6]
LEDE OpenWrt GPL, etc. N/A 72,901[7] Merged with OpenWrt
RutOS OpenWrt GPL, etc. 2020-01-15[8] 499,954[9] Operating System for Teltonika networking products
LibreCMC OpenWrt 2018-04-02[10] 2,099,9734[11]
Roofnet OpenWrt N/A N/A N/A Abandoned
DebWRT OpenWrt, Debian 2017-01-02 [12] 3,585,093[13]
HyperWRT Linux GPL 2005-02-07 N/A Abandoned
Tomato HyperWRT 2021-03-17 [14] 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] 466,964[20] for SBCs raspberry / orange pi
m0n0wall FreeBSD 2014-01-15 439,509[21] Abandoned
OPNsense FreeBSD Simplified BSD / FreeBSD License 2024-01-30[22] 152,329[23]
pfsense FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT ALv2 2023-11-16[24] 26,342[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ "OpenWrt website". www.openwrt.org/.
  2. ^ openwrt.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  3. ^ "Download Commotion Router". www.commotionwireless.net.
  4. ^ commotionwireless.net Archived 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  5. ^ "DD-WRT » Other Downloads". dd-wrt.com.
  6. ^ dd-wrt.com Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  7. ^ lede-project.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  8. ^ "RutOS". wiki.teltonika-networks.com.
  9. ^ teltonika-networks.com Archived 2020-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  10. ^ project, RISCi_ATOM, Robert Call, The libreCMC. "libreCMC : The libre Embedded GNU/Linux[-libre] distro". librecmc.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ librecmc.org[permanent dead link‍] at Alexa
  12. ^ "debwrt rootfs download".
  13. ^ debwrt.net Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  14. ^ "2021-freshtomato.org>downloads>freshtomato-mips>2021". freshtomato.org.
  15. ^ polarcloud.com Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  16. ^ openwrt devices
  17. ^ "Supported Devices - DD-WRT Wiki". wiki.dd-wrt.com.
  18. ^ libreCMC. "libreCMC/libreCMC". gogs.librecmc.org.
  19. ^ "zeroshell download".
  20. ^ zeroshell.org Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  21. ^ m0n0.ch Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  22. ^ "24.1 "Savvy Shark" Series — OPNsense documentation". opnsense.org.
  23. ^ opnsense.org Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa
  24. ^ "Releases — Versions of pfSense and FreeBSD - pfSense Documentation". doc.pfsense.org.
  25. ^ pfsense.org Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Alexa