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: | 74 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 20:47:20 |
| Calls: | 1,971 |
| Calls today: | 7 |
| Files: | 17,895 |
| D/L today: |
7 files (4,391K bytes) |
| Messages: | 67,057 |