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: | Karloch |
|---|---|
| Location: | Madrid, Spain |
| Users: | 70 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 101:27:25 |
| Calls: | 1,861 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 17,895 |
| D/L today: |
16 files (11,232K bytes) |
| Messages: | 66,613 |