Linux distribution primarily targeted at routing on embedded devices.

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Can Dnsmasq or DNRD forward all DNS packets pass my router?

I have a embedded Linux box as a router which has two interfaces. One interface is connected to public network by dialing into ISP. Another interface (its IP is 192.168.1.1) is connected to LAN ...
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Is it possible to reject incoming UDP packets when the downlink is congested?

As I understand outgoing packets of any transport protocol can be prioritised, but of TCP, UDP, and SCTP, only TCP and SCTP have congestion control allowing their incoming packets to be prioritised as ...
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Prevent device from reaching WAN traffic (MAC address for example) - OpenWRT

I want to forbid a device on my network from accessing the internet. Computers still have to communicate with the device, and vice versa. OpenWRT version: OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment 12.09
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accessing private servers via URL instead of port number with openwrt

I'm trying to set up my network to use easier to access naming. Right now im having to access each service via its port number from outside. If at all possible i'd like to access each by a subpage. ...
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OpenWRT USB performance on TP-Link TL-WDR3500

Yesterday i've flashed openwrt on my new router and configured the samba server etc., anticipating to get useful transfer speeds from the USB drive that i've connected. For testing purposes (and ...
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Setting up Static IP within Local Network

I'd like to know how to make it so that several of the computers on my home network have the same IP each time they connect. How do I go about that? I think I would disable DHCP for my LAN interface, ...
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OpenWRT is ignoring scheduled tasks?

My OpenWRT 10.03.1 Router (Linksys WRT160NL) is ignoring my crontab (set via System->Scheduled tasks). I want to reboot the router every night, since it tends to get flaky after some days. So I ...
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uhttpd crashes when requesting the luci index for the first time

I installed OpenWRT (ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (Bleeding Edge, r33556)) on my TP-Link Wifi router (TL-WR1043ND) and after getting sshd and some basic stuff running it sat on my desk for a couple weeks and ...
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“No space left on device” error in OpenWRT when there really is space

I ran into a problem with my application running on OpenWRT, where I write files to /tmp which is in RAM. Even though df reports that about 0% is used: root@OpenWrt:/tmp# df Filesystem ...
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When would I use something like OPEN-WRT [closed]

Just got a "TL-WDR3600 N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router". When would I use OPEN-WRT? Will the things I might want to do be easier or more difficult? Is it more for hackers, and people who ...
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How to set the default gateway for DHCP to 0.0.0.0 in OpenWRT?

I have a router with OpenWRT that I want to resolve IP addressing with DHCP without setting a default gateaway. I have added a DHCP-Option parameter with value 3,0.0.0.0 that is supposed to set the ...
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Quickest way to iterate on custom OpenWRT builds

I've been playing with the OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment trunk on my TL-MR3020 lately, and since I'm modifying some of the included packages that get installed via feeds, I need to reflash the firmware ...
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“Destination port unreachable” when pinging computer in another subnet

In my home network, I connect to the Internet through a router (192.168.1.1). I also have another router (192.168.1.15, 192.168.2.1), this one using OpenWRT, configured as a wireless client. One of my ...
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What to use to simulate tons of connections for hotspot capacity testing?

I set up a hotspot using OpenWrt on a TP-Link WR1043-ND (400Mhz CPU, 32MB RAM). It's on a 16/1 mbps line. I'm doing QoS with this script. I'd like to determine how many users can connect at the same ...
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QoS based on HTML page content

I have to implement a QoS policy on an OpenWRT router which should prioritize Twitter traffic. Identifying traffic to and from Twitter is easy but I would also like to prioritize traffic of pages ...
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Advanced QoS on prioritized first packages set by ISP

I have the following problem my ISP (Fibertel from Argentina) accelerates, 'enhances' the first 6.8 megabytes of downstream transfer and it's seems the first 1.8 megabytes of upstream transfer. This ...
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Linux Fuse module - determine supported file systems

Wondering how you can determine what filesystems are supported via FUSE on a Linux system? I ask as the performance of any NTFS formatted USB HDD I attach to my Netgear DGN2200v3 is painful and write ...
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sshuttle on a DD-WRT / OpenWRT Router

Has anybody had any success installing and running sshuttle on a wireless router? My intent is to have all traffic from all devices (computer, tablet, gaming system, etc.) that connect to the router ...
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tp-link 1043nd no internet after flashing to gargoyle firmware

all!! ive recently bought a tp-link wr1043nd version 1.10 and flashed gargoyle firmware 1.5.9 onto it (after intermediate step of flashing from stock firmware to german version of firmware) ive read ...
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OpenWrt: how to give wlan clients @ 10.x Internet access via gateway @ 192.168.1.254

I want to isolate guests connecting to my Wi-Fi to the 10.0.0.x subnet, while giving them Internet access. The OpenWrt router is at 192.168.1.48 ("wifi" interface has 10.0.0.1) and my gateway is at ...
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Networking ping

I installed OpenWrt in VirtualBox with this network configuration: -access bridge -eth0 -type of card: PCnet-FAST III the eth0 adress of OpenWrt is: 192.168.1.226 the eth0 adress of the OS ...
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Unable to ping virtual machine, how to troubleshoot?

I installed OpenWrt in VirtualBox with this network configuration: access bridge eth0 type of card: PCnet-FAST III eth0 adress of OpenWrt is: 192.168.1.226 eth0 adress of the OS installed in my ...
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How to use router advertisements in openwrt?

I'm running an openwrt in a VM which is tunneled to a server that gives IPv6 address (bridged connection on eth0). That works fine. I'm using ping6 successfully. I have a second network on eth1. An ...
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Personal Cloud Storage

I have an openwrt installed router. I can attach my hdds to the router and access my files from my any computer in the local area network. I am using the university housing wired internet service. ...
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OpenWrt and blocking addresses from china

I'm running OpenWrt on my router and I love it. My question is how do I block all china addresses from connecting to my firewall on port 22 in the router? 99.9999% of the unauthorized ssh connections ...
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Connecting two networks with OpenWRT and OpenVPN (probably firewall)

I have read a few tutorials and threads, but I assume the problem is situated in the OpenWRT (firewall?) settings. I have a rootserver that acts as an OpenVPN server and two networks on OpenWRT ...
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Bridge wan and vlan on tp-link tl-wr1043nd OpenwRT installation

I installed OpenwRT on my tp-link tl-wr1043nd router. It works fine. I'm just wondering how I can bridge the WAN and LAN ports. So: any user (ethernet or wireless) connecting to this router SHOULD ...
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How do I capture 802.11 headers on an AP while not in monitor mode?

I am wondering if it is possible to extract 802.11 frames on a router running OpenWrt operating as an access point. I tried using tcpdump and loading the dumped packets in Wireshark, but I could only ...
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OpenWRT fails to bring local WLAN up if WLAN to be redistributed fails/is not available

I am trying to setup my TP-Link TL-MR3020 running OpenWRT to to redistribute a wireless network, e.g. for when traveling and being in a hotel. So far, my setup works pretty well - if the wireless ...
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OpenWrt: Set up native IPv6

on my dorm's network there is native ipv6 support. After reading wiki articles and googling I got the following parts working: List item Router gets IPv6 address Router can ping IPv6 addresses on ...
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cannot connect to OpenWrt router via switch

(Copied from the OpenWrt forum, where it went from the visible pages without answer...) Dear all, a few days ago I set up a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND with OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment 12.09-rc1. The router ...
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run a 802.1x authenticator on OpenWrt router

I have TP-Link TL-WR1043ND and I successfully Installed OpenWrt, FreeRadius2 and Wpad. Also Wireless client authentication is working fine. But my actual task is to restrict Wired Users to access the ...
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Installing OpenWRT

I'm a complete networking beginner, trying to install OpenWRT on a TPLink 703N, following these instructions : http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Install_OpenWRT_on_TPlink_WR703N Having installed and ...
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Virtualizing networking appliance with qemu or similar

Since I'm interested in some *WRT/OpenWRT related work on ARM devices, I would like to use some virtualized environment for this and for facilitate my tasks. A more direct question will be: it's ...
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OpenWRT based gateway with dnsmasq and internal server with bind

I have router based on OpenWRT which has dnsmasq 2.59. Inside my local area network I have a NS server bind. This server has internal and external views for a couple of my domains. My router forwards ...
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OpenWRT wireless association dropping at night only

I am trying to figure out a puzzling issue with my wireless... Around 10pm every night, I start having intermittent drop of my connection to the wireless, usually within a minute or two of each other. ...
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A router that supports connecting with 2 different wifi networks [closed]

I Have the following setup in one place: We have a small local ISP through wireless. I have a external parabolic antenna, connected to a external usb wifi radio, connected through USB to a desktop ...
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How to configure OpenWRT to route IPv6 traffics?

I recently bought a router and flashed OpenWRT, with kmod-ipv6 and radvd installed. I was trying to set up IPv6 connections, but I can only ping ipv6.google.com from the router, not the computers ...
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Why won't top command show the right result?

You want to find the line 3427 1 root S 36964 124% 2% tmux -L l in the following screenshots of top command. Why can tmux use more than 100 percent of memory? That is confusing... Is ...
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How to set the IP address in a customized OpenWRT compilation

I have been struggling today customizing OpenWRT. I checkout the stable using SVN, "make menuconfig" to customize the image, "make" it and run it on a router. Almost all my modifications work, except ...
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Make D-Link router copy all packets to a specific port

I want to use a D-Link ADSL2 router/modem ( DSL-2640B ) to sniff all network traffic (for a security audit. I don't have time to scan all machines there and I want to know if they are quiet or sending ...
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Network bandwith monitoring per users [closed]

Please show me a fully open-source solution in this situation: Small network with about 30 pc with wireless cards. An Regular Asus wireless access-point which connected to the server. Server is a ...
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Choosing an extenstible home router device for OpenWRT/DD-WRT [closed]

I want to replace my home router with some device capable of VPN (OpenVPN) and torrents (so USB port is required), also it would be nice to have some very small web server with scripting capability (I ...
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Routed AP using OpenWRT

Background I want to use OpenWRT in to enhance a relatively week signal in one part of the house. The FritzBox router is located far away, and must stay at the top floor. I can't use cables. ...
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How to find the static ip address of my router?

I bricked my Linksys WRT54GS router when trying to change the firmware on it from dd-wrt to open-wrt. In order to unbrick it, I need to be able to do an ftp transfer to it. The problem is that it ...
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Convert WiFi range extender to AP

I have a Linksys RE1000 WiFi range extender that might become obsolete soon (being replaced with cables). I was thinking, since it has an ethernet port and WiFi radio, could it be turned into an ...
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Route all traffic through a VPN using the OpenWRT firmware

I have a home network with a number of wireless clients, including laptops, a media server, and some consoles. Just 4 days ago my world changed: My the country i live in signed in to ACTA. As i ...
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OpenWRT LAN clients don't see each

I'm a beginner at using OpenWRT but I'm loving it already. Everything is running fine (internet, wifi) on all clients except one thing: the computers running in my LAN don't see each other. Pings to ...
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Wireless is slow, but only to the internet, not local connections

I have a Ubiquity RouterStation Pro running the latest release of OpenwRT. Connecting via a wire directly to the router, or through a switch, I get exactly the speed I would expect, both to my local ...
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Linksys WRT54G router broadcasting, but not responding otherwise

I was messing with my WRT54G running OpenWRT and I may have ruined it, but I am not sure. By default, it has a static IP of 192.168.1.1, but I turned that off and made so it gets its IP from DHCP. ...

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