Posts Tagged ‘OpenWRT’
Background At home I have a bunch of SSH tunnels from a VM to my various virtual private servers in various places around the world, so I can direct my web traffic through those exit points when needed. I’ve written before about using autossh to do this. But when I’m travelling I don’t have my […]
Filed under: howto, networking | 1 Comment
Tags: keys, OpenWRT, proxy, SOCKS, SSH, sshtunnel, tunnel
Background A travel router has been part of my kitbag for many years, starting with a D-Link DWL-G730AP back in 2007. More recently I’ve been using a few GL.iNet GL-MT300N (v2), as they’re small and cheap enough to have in my work bag and my travel bag. I wasn’t particularly worried about speed, as I […]
Filed under: review, travel | Leave a Comment
Tags: GL.iNet, MT1300, MT300N, OpenWRT, router, travel
January 2021
Pupdate He’s getting more used to the rhythms of life with us. There’s obviously a distinctive sound to my lock keyboard keystroke, as he’s up and stretching before I’ve had a chance to change my glasses. Speaker fix I was watching The Midnight Sky[1]. It has a bunch of scenes in a spaceship, with very […]
Filed under: monthly_update, Raspberry Pi | 2 Comments
Tags: ARM, Bind, Brewdog, Brix, dachshund, DNS, dry January, Elvis AF, ESXi, eTrade, Mission, MOT, OpenWRT, puppy, Raspberry Pi, reMarkable, speaker, Stream Deck, Transferwise, VMware, woofer, Zoom
Using 1.1.1.1
TL;DR One of the best features of Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS service is the privacy provided by DNS over TLS, but some setup is required to make use of it. I put Unbound onto the OpenWRT routers I use as DNS servers for my home network so that I could use it. Background Yesterday Cloudflare […]
Filed under: howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: 1.1.1.1, Bind, CloudFlare, DNS, OpenWRT, privacy, Unbound
TL;DR I need local DNS for various home lab things, but the Windows VMs I’ve been using can be slow and unreliable after a power outage (which happens too frequently). Moving to BIND turned out to be much easier than I feared, and I chose OpenWRT devices to run it on as I wanted reliable […]
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Tags: AD, Bind, DNS, forwarder, OpenWRT, zone
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has introduced ‘software security requirements’ obliging WiFi device manufacturers to “ensure that only properly authenticated software is loaded and operating the device”. The document specifically calls out the DD-WRT open source router project, but clearly also applies to other popular distributions such as OpenWRT. This could become an […]
Filed under: InfoQ news, technology, WRTnode | Leave a Comment
Tags: android, CyanogenMod, FCC, firmware, open source, OpenWRT, router, wifi, WRTnode
Node-RED on WRTnode
TL;DR – it runs – now I need to put together some GPIO nodes. Updated 5 Dec 2014 – In my original post Node-RED was so slow it was unusable. Using Michal Vondráček’s node-ws package fixed that. Background The WRTnode website features a screenshot of Node-RED, so I thought it would be fun to make it come […]
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Tags: javascript, node, Node-RED, node.js, OpenWRT, WRTnode
OpenWRT on TP-Link WR-703N
The TP-Link WR-703N is a nice, hackable pocket WiFi router. I’ve seen them put to some interesting purposes, but I didn’t own one until yesterday when the kind folk at QCon Shanghai gave me one. I’m not a fan of factory TP-Link firmware at the best of times, but more so when it defaults to […]
Filed under: howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: ethernet, lan, OpenWRT, TL-WR703N, TP-Link, wan, wifi, WR703N
The WRTnode is a great new open source hardware dev board that takes the guts of a typical home router and makes it hackable. It’s more than an Arduino, less than a Raspberry Pi, and very network capable. WRTnode runs the OpenWRT Linux distribution, which I’ve used in the past on some of my home […]
Filed under: networking, WRTnode | 1 Comment
Tags: helloworld, OpenWRT, SDK, wrthelp, WRTnode
OpenWRT on TP-Link TL-WR2543ND
If you want to dive straight into install instructions then head over to the TP-Link TL-WR2543ND article on the OpenWRT Wiki. Why? When my son smashed the screen on my iPad 2 I think he also damaged the WiFi antenna. I had to be just about be sitting on top of a 2.4Ghz hotspot to get […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 802.11a, firmware, gigabit, OpenWRT, router, serial, switch, TL-WR2543ND, TP-Link
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