Questions tagged [openwrt]

OpenWrt is a Linux distribution primarily targeted at routing on embedded devices.

OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management.

Some of the features:

  • Routing
  • QoS
  • Firewall
  • Traffic shaping
  • Load balancing
  • Network monitoring

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OpenWRT Barrier Breaker - Router does not route

I've upgraded my TP-Link 1043 router to OpenWrt 14.07. Everything is perfect, Wifi and LAN are bridged, LAN machines can access each other by name, I can SSH into the router, and the router can access the internet on the pppoe-wan interface. The is…
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OpenWRT USB attached disk spin-down

I use a couple of ASUS WL-500GP running OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09.1 (2.4 kernel) as small office gateways and firewall. Now I would like to attach USB disks to cache local backup-data during office-hours and send it over the net during night. The…
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How do I set up an IPv6 DMZ with iptables without a static allocation?

I have several networks which are on Comcast's residential network. I need to access those networks from a variety of environments, via an SSH proxy on one of the hosts. (As it happens I'm using OpenWRT, so a specific solution there would be…
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What protocols/ports to open for WinSCP

Which ports (and/or protocols) should be given priority for WinSCP to connect to a *nix machine? Details: I have a Windows client running WinSCP, which connects through a WRT54 router (running Tomato) to a remote Ubuntu server. The Tomato router has…
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How to configure totally open DMZ with OpenWRT?

I have OpenWRT router. I have NAS in my LAN, which i need to access from WAN and from all computers in the LAN. So, it should be accessible from any computer and it needs to access some of them, too. I read OpenWRT wiki and forums, and they…
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Route an IP from WAN to a host on LAN on OpenWRT

EDIT: I know how to use NAT, I specifically want the server to be reachable on two IP's, one private, one public, with the firewall of the OpenWRT in between, if feasible. At the office we have recieved a /29 from our ISP. The first address is…
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How to send mail from an OpenWrt router

I am using OpenWrt 10.03 and need to send "reports" from my router by email. I have installed sendmail: # opkg install mini-sendmail Then I used my ISP's smtp server: # echo -e "From: TEST@TEST.TES\nSubject: SUBJECT\nReply-to:…
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Show delegated ipv6 prefix at command line in OpenWRT

In OpenWRT’s gui “LuCI“ the delegated IPv6 Prefix provided by the ISP is diplayed in the status page in overview. Normally it will be shown under “IPv6 WAN Status“ in the “Network“ section like IPv6 WAN Status Type: dhcpv6-pd …
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OpenWRT Dynamic VLAN

I'm setting up an wireless AP with OpenWRT to support dynamic vlan's, provided by a RADIUS server. I found a guide on OpenWRT.org which I followed, and with some extra research I'm almost there. The only thing not working is the dynamic vlan…
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Tunnel only specific port over OpenVPN on OpenWRT-Merlin

My Asus RT-AC87U router is running OpenWRT-Merlin. OpenWRT-Merlin allows you to set up an OpenVPN client and disable NAT so that you have to manually configure the routes for this VPN. How do I do this using iptables or ip route add, or something…
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forward vpn traffic from tun1 to tun0

I've been banging my head on this for a while and gave up trying to figure it out. My knowledge about routing and iptables is just too limited to understand this it seems. I have configured a split routing situation on my openwrt router. one…
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OpenWrt configuration on the remote server

I have 11 openwrt-based accesspoints in the building. Sometimes I need to add a virtual network with custom password. I don't like to iterate through accesspoints to change parameters. This is difficult and generate mistakes. I would love to have a…
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Wireless Multicast Forwarding on OpenWRT

Good day! We need to connect an STB device over wi-fi to the router. STB uses multicast only. Using udpxy is not possible. Original firmware forwards multicast over wi-fi using mac changing technique. I.e. router changes destination mac address from…
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Macvlan-interface and PPP-session

I need to pick up two PPP-sessions on the same interface with different MAC-addresses (on some device with openWrt). I decided to check macvlans. I created an interface with another MAC-address. ip link add link eth0 address 00:cc:cc:cc:11:33…
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Force to use specific DNS provider at network

OpenDNS offers a quite simple way for internet filtering by categories. Of course who could get the correct IP address can easily bypass the filter but it would be enough for my expectations. The bigger problem is that changing DNS provider at…
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