How to Set USB Flash Drive To Router

Aug. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- A few small capacity personalized USB disk, use up too capacity is too little, lost and feel like what a pity. But now after a easy transformation, we cooperate with the computer, you can get a powerful router, not only save money to buy router, and this router can’t buy in the market.

DD-WRT brief introduce
Each router device we use has its own operating system OS for routing equipment to set up and manage a variety of functions. In fact, we usually say to upgrade the router firmware, upgrade the operating system refresh routing equipment to make the routing device more powerful.

DD-WRT is a Linux operating system, but essentially it’s a third-party router firmware. Routing and network management functions are very powerful, widely used the Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL, or the other based on the Broadcom reference design 802.11g wireless router. DD-WRT can be flushed to the router device support, so that the router’s more powerful. Similarly, we can also let the DD-WRT independent running on a computer, as long as we provide the appropriate hardware, you can let the computer to achieve the functionality of the router!

Hardware preparation
As long as small storage memory custom USB flashes drive, of course, the USB can not separate as a router used. However, it can be used as an ultra-compact server, portable, with a variety of different computer to use. At the same time, the machine appended to a NIC or a hub is necessary.

Install DD-WRT x86 version：
Now, we need to “brush” the road by firmware DD-WRT on the USB disk. Generally speaking, the brush firmware needs to equip the hardware to brush router firmware, according to common sense, to firmware brush on the router. But here we are directly to update the firmware to USB flash drive. DD-WRT’s capacity is only 11MB, the old USB flash disk usually have 16MB to 128MB storage memory which is definitely enough .Here to brush the firmware on a 64MB U disk, for example:

DD-WRT X86 vision “dd-wrt-public-vga.image(Hard disk/memory card installed image files)” “physdiskwrite 0.5.1(The router IMG write dish tools)”. And decompression to the same folder, opens CMD command prompt window, go to the program in the folder. Execute the following command：“physdiskwrite.exe-u dd-wrt_public_vga.image”， Program will automatically detect the current system of hard disk and mobile storage equipment, and shows all the serial number and storage device related parameters. Check“Information for\\.\.PhysicalDrive”，confirm the old machine USB flash drive serial number the“PhysicalDrive”is the specified hard disk and USB flash drive equipment serial number.

Generally speaking, if the machine is only a hard disk, then grafted in U dish for the serial number“PhysicalDrive1”; If there are two pieces, new hard drive, the old machine U dish for serial number“PhysicalDrire2”.

Program suggests “Which disk do you want to write?”Be attention, not to choose wrong, or USB disk in the data will be covered. Input U dish after enter serial number, screen, confirmed that is correct, it really writing. Here we choose “yes”, a few seconds later, the router firmware is written into the old machine U plate. It is show “11534336/11534336 bytes written in total”，then it is done.

Tips：“physdiskwrite.exe-u dd-wrt_public.vga.image”is the “u “parameters of command.
Mainly in the target hard disk or U plate more than 800 MB use, if the old plate are small, less than 800 MB, or use CF card and so on, can take out the parameters.

Set router
Put USB plug on the computer, and for two tickets on cable network card, powered up, brush with just the DD-WRT U dish guidance system. After the start, can see just brush into the DD-WRT took over system lead, lead into the Linux
system. System guide, DD-WRT will automatically detect the network environment and hard drive equipment, and automatically network Settings, began to provide routing service.

Open the browser on the computer, in the address bar of the browser input the router’s default IP address “http;//192.168.1.1”， Enter and asked to enter your user name and password The router’s default user login name“root”，code is “admin, Click “administrator”on the top of the page，set“LanguageSelection”to“ChineseSimplified”.

Here we introduce is to direct will DD-WRT play to USB disk device, and actually can also brush to CF card, DOM etc on a storage medium.Additional, still can directly download “DD-WRT X86″ CD image files, directly to burn yourself from installation process.CD mirror can also direct mass production to U plate so that we had a belt “routing” and store the double function of USB disk。

Now, to set up the Internet router ADSL, common network access method may be ADSL dial-up, fixed IP or dynamic IP, here with ADSL dial-up set, for example, you may refer to the other. Click above page “set/basic Settings”, in the “Internet connection type” select “PPOE”, input ADSL dial-up Internet account number and password. In the lower “network Settings/router IP”, setting the DNS DNS server local address, save Settings provide routing the Internet can begin.

In the lower “network address server Settings (DHCP)”, can be in use DHCP function.
In addition, there are many ADSL MODEM also support WEB form management, their IP address of the factory default is often “192.168.1.1″, possibly for ADSL MODEM and router lP address conflict, which cannot be installed and use of the router.

Therefore, we have to change the router LAN IP address, just now, in “the network Settings/router IP”, “local IP address” to modify for other IP address, for example “192.168.1.254″. When set comes into force, the router LAN IP address that is a “192.168.1.254″, later set router, will pass through IP connection visited.
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