What the [redacted] is a Candyhouse Router?

“Candyhouse” is the codename for the Marvell board that powers the Cisco / Linksys E4200v2 and EA4500 routers.

So far as I can tell, these two devices are identical hardware with the price difference being defined only by marketing and the bundled firmware.

Credits:

This project would not have been possible without the early work of a few awesome folks. Thanks to…

• Dan Walters for discovering the back door to get SSH access.
• Andrew Brampton for obtaining and dissecting the stock firmware.
• Hugh Daschback for writing and documenting much of the original Cisco GPL code and being kind enough to point me in the right direction every time I got stuck.

Tagged Posts

• Candyhouse IPFire (05 Dec 2014)
  
• OpenWRT for Candyhouse Routers (01 Dec 2014)
  
• Candyhouse U-Boot (26 Sep 2014)
  
• Building Candyhouse SSAs (22 Sep 2014)
  
• Candyhouse Backdoor Packages (22 Sep 2014)
  
• Building Candyhouse uImages (16 Sep 2014)
  
• Building Debian for Candyhouse Routers (01 Aug 2014)
  
• Installing Debian on Candyhouse Routers (01 Mar 2014)
  
• Candyhouse Serial Console (01 Mar 2014)
  
• Cisco / Linksys E4200v2 - Part 2 (04 Nov 2012)
  
• Making the Cisco/Linksys E4200v2 work for you (26 Oct 2012)