Gargoyle (router firmware)

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Developer Eric Bishop Working state Current		OS family Unix-like Source model Open source

Initial release 14 July 2008 (2008-07-14) Latest release 1.9.1 (July 6, 2016 (2016-07-06))

Gargoyle is a free OpenWrt-based Linux distribution for a range of wireless routers based on Broadcom or Atheros chipsets, mainly the older Linksys WRT54G series, Asus Routers and some Netgear routers. Among notable features is the ability to limit and monitor bandwidth and set bandwidth caps per specific IP address.

Main features

Bandwidth monitoring

Quotas, limits and bandwidth throttling

Quality of service (QoS) with active congestion control

Website blacklisting by hostname or IP address

References

Gargoyle (router firmware) Wikipedia

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