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Topic: announcement: new web interface for central management of wrt's out

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Hi folks,

to anyone who is intereseted in a centralized management of wrt's in a network, please check

http://open.megabit.net/

Our new webinterface netWRT has just been released in a first pre-version but has already reached its main aims:
- allows to (un)set *any* nvram variable via a secure ssh channel (key-based authentication)
- all variables are dynamically stored in a database and grouped into logical units (LAN, WAN, WLAN etc.)
- each variable can have dependencies or conflicts set (e.g. to ensure that someone does not use WEP and WPA at the same time)
- comes with a standard-set of commonly used variables (lan_*, wan_* etc.)
- allows grouping of multiple devices and has the possibility to set selected variables group-wide (e.g. change the WEP key for all devices in the group)

Unfortunatly, it does have some more requirements than usual:
- tested with Apache 1.3.x and PHP 4.x (safe_mode disabled)
- MySQL Database (tested with 3.22)
- SSH(-Client)
- expect (which needs tcl installed)

plans for future releases:
- improvement of user interface
- transfer of existing configuration into the database

Feel free to play around with it, we appreciate as much feedback as we can get!

I've tested netWRT with 3 Linksys Routers and it works excellent,
if you erase the nvram before you install netWRT.

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