port forwarding helps you to open up a port in your router or firewall so that you can play online games, host a web server or ftp server, upload webcam data, instant message or send and receive mIRC DDC fserve operations.

Vyatta is the only networking solution for professionals seeking a flexible, affordable alternative to Cisco. Vyatta's open source routing and security software offers network administrators the unique ability to leverage the standards of both open software and open hardware to gain price, performance, and scalability advantages over proprietary router, firewall and VPN solutions.

An online community focused on NETGEAR's WGR614L & WNR3500L open source routers - a custom wireless platform built on open source. You'll also find information about third party firmware applications, including DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, Sveasoft, Sputnik, and others, and how to integrate these into your NETGEAR open source router. You'll also find detailed documentation on recovering your router

DD-WRT is free Linux-based firmware for several wireless routers, most notably the Linksys WRT54G (including the WRT54GL and WRT54GS) and Buffalo WHR-G54s,WHR-HP-G54. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. Many of DD-WRT's features are not included in typical router firmware. These features include support for the Kai network, daemon-based services, IPv6, Wireless Dist