I tried openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs-8.09.1.bin and could not find the "Firewall" section.
(It's under Administration->Network in 8.09)

LuCI 0.8.7.

I downgraded to 8.09 for now as I like forwarding ports and allowing external connections to my router.

Note to others in my situation: To downgrade to an older openwrt, you need to strip the first 32 bytes off of the *.bin file.
The easiest way is to do this from the linux command line:

dd if=penwrt-wrt54g-squashfs-8.09.bin of=penwrt-wrt54g-squashfs-8.09.trx -bs=32 skip=1

Then do:
less penwrt-wrt54g-squashfs-8.09.trx

and right at the very beginning you will see:

HDR0

and that means you're good to go. Otherwise, you cut too much or too little off, or it's the wrong kind of file or something.

-Jesse

Hello
I'm also missing this on my WRT54GL

Helidude

Have you installed the luci-app-firewall package?

I hadn't (and now I've downgraded so I'll have to experiment later.)

I guess I just assumed that since the previous version included the firewall feature, and that this is for a *firewall* [grin] that the firewall packages would be installed :-)

But thank you very much for the tip and next time I try the new version I'll check to see if I have that package installed.

Have  wonderful day,

-Jesse

I also installed was disappointed to find 8.09.1 did not have luci-app-firewall included.
At the time I was installing a router that I had just flased on a LAN with no internet access so I had to downgrade to 8.09 before installing.

I hope it gets added back into the 8.09.2 firmware

Roger

Thanks Dogge!

I stuck 8.09.1 on, and then ran:

ipkg install luci-app-firewall

and nothing new showed up in the menu so I rebooted -- and it WORKED!

Now I have the firewall option again!

Thanks,

-Jesse

I've spoken to Andy Boyett (OpenWRT developer) is planning to get luci-app-firewall back into the next release (8.09.2)

Then reload and login into LuCI WebUI. No reboot needed.

(Last edited by Dogge on 16 Sep 2009, 11:56)