133 Like DD-WRT Good alternative? YES NO DD-WRT is a Linux based alternative OpenSource firmware suitable for a great variety of WLAN routers and embedded systems. The main emphasis lies on providing the... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
70 Like OpenWrt Good alternative? YES NO OpenWRT ( open - wireless receiver transmitter ) is a niche Linux distribution mainly installed on embedded devices, e.g. residential gateways. It is built on top of... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
62 Like pfSense Good alternative? YES NO pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall, and router. In addition to being a... Free Open Source BSD Content Filtering Load balancing Add a feature
13 Like LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment YES NO OpenWrt fork with open governance model to encourage development for embedded such as SOHO routers and non-network devices. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Chrome OS Android Tablet Self-Hosted OpenWrt Embeddable Add a feature
7 Like Tomato by Shibby Good alternative? YES NO TomatoUSB fork. - Torrent client integration (Transmission) with user-friendly GUI for configuration. - NFS server integration - Support for USB 3G modems (thx... Free Open Source Linux Tomato No features added Add a feature
18 Like Tomato Good alternative? YES NO Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new... Free Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued Tomato hasn't been updated since 2011. For reason of proof, the latest Tomato update, 1.28, includes in its change notes that it updated dnsmasq version to v2.55. DNS Masq is currently at version v2.72. The v2.55 DNSmasq update was published in 2010.
5 Like VyOS Good alternative? YES NO VyOS is a community fork of Vyatta , a Linux-based network operating system that provides software-based network routing, firewall, and VPN functionality. Free Open Source Linux Command line interface Add a feature
9 Like LibreMesh Good alternative? YES NO LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks. By default it uses ad-hoc wifi... Free Linux OpenWrt LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment Decentralized Distributed Add a feature
2 Like libreCMC Good alternative? YES NO Now merged with LibreWRT, libreCMC is the libre Embedded GNU/Linux Distro. libreCMC is a set of fully free embedded Operating Systems for general purpose computers.... Free Linux No features added Add a feature
3 Like AdvancedTomato Good alternative? YES NO A router's graphical user interface is the most important part of the system because most users are unable or unwilling to configure a router by any other means.... Free Open Source Linux Tomato by Shibby No features added Add a feature
3 Like TomatoUSB Good alternative? YES NO Tomato USB is an alternative Linux-based firmware for powering Broadcom-based ethernet routers. It is a modification of the famous Tomato firmware, with additional... Free Open Source Linux Tomato Skinnable Add a feature Discontinued No longer developed. Last version, Build 54, released on November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
0 Like Cisco IOS Good alternative? YES NO Cisco IOS is a family of software used on most Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches. Commercial Self-Hosted GNS3 No features added Add a feature
2 Like OpenWISP Good alternative? YES NO OpenWISP is a software platform that can be used to implement a complete public wifi service. The suite includes applications derived from tools used to offer public... Free Open Source Linux Self-Hosted Mesh network Add a feature
0 Like Junos OS Good alternative? YES NO Junos OS is the FreeBSD-based operating system used in Juniper Networks hardware routers. It is an operating system that is used in Juniper's routing, switching and... Commercial VirtualBox Self-Hosted VMware Workstation GNS3 VMware Player No features added Add a feature
0 Like OpenContrail Good alternative? YES NO OpenContrail is an Apache 2.0-licensed project that is built using standards-based protocols and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization–SDN... Free Open Source Linux Self-Hosted Content Filtering Add a feature
