DGTeam is an unofficial custom firmware developed for Netgear DG834XX Router Series.
It is based on Netgearofficial releases with many revisions, addons & bug corrections. Latest versions (with sources) are always on following Download pages (EXTERNAL MIRRORS ONLY !!):
PLEASE REMEMBER TO FOLLOW BLUE RIGHT-FRAME ON-LINE HELP GUIDE ON EACH ROUTER CONTROL PANEL'S WEB PAGE TO ACHIEVE BETTER COMPREHENSION OF NEW FEATURES.
Original busybox OS totally replaced by recompiled 1.01 version with some revisions needed to achieve better integration with router control interfaces.
In particular, many useful commands oriented to: networking management (netstat, hostname, arping, etc),
binary file treatment (uuencode-decode) and debug/upload purposes (ftpget-put, wget, tar, zip) have been added.
Latest physical ADSL driver available for respective models.
New shell execution Command: a powerful filter developed by DGTeam with dedicated nvram libraries which gives the possibility of saving/modifing settings
and executing all the various instances directly from the shell command line. Digit: command help to see all its available features.
Enhanced iptables-based modular binary firewall, revisited and improved:
it doesn't add/create rules in one shot only, requiring restarts at every setting change, but now, due to its built-in modular structure,
it can delete/add each group of rules singularly, without making modifications to the others.
Iptables ruleset is written into a temporary file called /tmp/dgteam_rules and then executed at the end of the preliminary preparation step.
All the applied rule commands may be read/consulted digiting:
rc firewall create
cat /tmp/dgteam_rules
New firewall modules are:
Url block improved & fixed (possibility of enabling/disabling block as scheduled and to setup more than one trust ip at a time);
Firewall SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall) with manual separated module activation (PORTSCAN/TCP/UDP/ICMP) and sensing parameters regulation;
Possibility of deactivating whole firewall (firewall + NAT) or NAT only, inverting default inbound rules policy;
Natloopback (old firmware releases only: on latests it's included into vanilla kernel)
including remote management (simulating an external connection) and DMZ support;
Reaim proxy (de)activation (ICQ, MSN, AOL port redirecting);
Icmp (ping) LAN/WAN/kernel based (de)activation (router may drop ping packets also from LAN side);
IM ports block: possibility of totally blocking IM clients (same feature present on firewall rules).
Web interface revisited with full Tigra slider control integration,
new frames added on left column to improve panel browsing (links and logout), some new gifs and new customized top frame logos.
Additional customized Web CGI interface, containing all procedures needed to process old and new web panel page forms:
Setup wizard, Advanced adsl settings, Site blocks, SPI firewall, ALG services, Schedule,
Change username and password, Management modes, Diagnostics, WAN settings, Advanced TCP/IP settings,
NO-IP, UPNP, Wake On Lan.
Advanced ADSL settings with smart adsl multimode, SNR regulation,
bitswap, trellis bit, sra, sesdrop, i24k, parity activation and so on (Broadcom models).
Advanced ADSL test (tones, medley) useful for diagnostic purpose (instance directly taken from latest original sources on eng web panel).
Wi-Fi encryption modes WPA AES, WPA2, WPA2 + WPA, WPA2 802.11 Radius added on GT model
(features already present on latest orig release but unlinked on web panel).
Wi-Fi WDS (essential) mode added on GT model (instance directly taken from latest original sources on eng web panel).
Device Mode instance (present also on original releases but unlinked on web panel menu).
Schedule instance completely rewritten with many bug fixes
(midnight restart, day change, wrong GMT fuse on htm page, etc) including full working wireless schedule instance.
OpenNTP BSD added (replacing original ntp client) with multi server/pool support acting also as NTP server for local LAN.
Change Username and Password (from the same web panel htm page).
Triple configuration mode, available also from remote login:
Web (mini_httpd, deactivable);
Telnet (utelnetd with a compatibility patch for dos/win clients);
Ssh (dropbear, supporting downloadable rsa key encryption for a secure connection).
All configuration daemon clients have been updated to their latest stable release (with some necessary adaptations).
To reactivate an interface, digit from command line:
command manage http local on for web panel;
command manage telnet local on for telnet;
command manage ssh local on for ssh/dropbear.
As web panel, also command line interfaces are restricted to login access for security reason, in particular:
Telnet login username is the same of the web panel (can be modified);
Dropbear login is always root (can't be modified).
Password is the same for all the interfaces.
Diagnostic page extended with many useful commands:
ARP-ping;
MTU size finder script (find out largest MTU value available for current network);
Advanced adsl driver informations and bit error rate test (Broadcom models);
Netstat conntracks monitor;
Firewall status (iptables rules dump);
Running processes monitor;
Kernel informations (dmesg);
Show crontab;
RAM memory optimization (also scheduled every 3 hours);
Router shutdown (puts router in deep standby mode: manual restart required).
Advanced TCP/IP settings, oriented to: web browsing speed-up, VOIP optimization and P2P management. Settings available are:
timestamps, fast recycle, conntracks limit extension, keepalive, probes, tcp/udp/voip/icmp timeout.
Dynamic dns NOIP binary client purposely developed for these models and recently rewritten according to new ip update procedure.
Wake On Lan client with auto broadcast ip determination and udp port setting (executable both from web panel and command line).
Default settings updated with more factory services and some variable adjustements.
Some other minor stuffs & fixes.
All web panel languages supported.
N.B. Some custom fre/deu web pages are written in english language only (due to their structure they are comprehensive too anyway).
We are searching for users who want to work over fre, deu, (also eng) translation revisions: all the help received will be appreciated...
Further probes...
IGMP proxy multicast daemon;
SNMP daemon;
WI-FI features extension;
PAT (Port Address Translation);
Remote management discrete ip address list;
UPNP revision;
HTTPS web interface;
Advanced DHCP settings;
DNS cache extension;
Physical LED management;
Integrated VPN endpoint & passthrough.
REMEMBER: THESE FIRMWARES ARE UNOFFICIAL AND ABSOLUTELY UNSUPPORTED BY NETGEAR !!
USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK !!