Questions tagged [openwrt]
Linux distribution primarily targeted at routing on embedded devices.
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How to make OpenWRT only route some clients through a VPN?
I have an openWRT router and would like only certain client devices' traffic to be routed through a VPN to the internet. How can I do this with openWRT or similar router software? VPN client ...
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Connecting 2 cellular Routers
I want to connect to 4G routers over the cellular network, so client A connects to Router A which has 4G SIM card which is connected over cellular network to another 4G SIM card installed on Router B ...
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How to enable libx264 in ffmpeg in openwrt
when I run 'ffmpeg -encoders=libx264',
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Unknown encoder 'libx264'
I have installed 'ffmpeg' on Openwrt. How i can enable this. Please guide me
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How sysupgrade a firmware in Openwrt with "--no-reboot" option?
Is it possible to run "sysupgrade" a firmware in openwrt without reboot? I need to upgrade a new firmware without rebooting.
Thanks.
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Settings for direct connection from one PC to another with WDS enabled
I have the following network topology:
The main router (installed by provider with proprietary software) connected to the Internet, the repeater is WDS bridge in repeater mode with OpenWRT and relayd....
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OpenWRT: TCP connect to [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:1080 failed: Connection refused?
I am trying to add Mullvad VPN on openWRT router. I have uploaded mullvard vpn .ovpn config file in the openwrt's openVPN section. I have also provided the mullvard.auth details which contains the ...
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How to recover bricked Archer C20?
My router is a TP-Link Archer C20 (US) V5. I installed OpenWRT on it successfully using these instructions (made sure to use the US firmware of course) and it was working fine. For some reason I ...
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Connect OpenWRT to Eduroam
I have a Pi baked with OpenWRT, which I want to connect to the Eduroam network of our university. Is there a way, I can connect to Eduroam and get OpenWRT to submit the username and password so it can ...
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Samba does not start correctly
I have an older router with OpenWRT operating system. I have a connection configured via OpenVPN and file sharing via Samba. However, after restarting the router, Samba won't start properly because I ...
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Route all Windows traffic through a vm router (OpenWrt) on VirtualBox
I followed the router (OpenWrt)'s wiki guide and successfully got it running and connected to internet. I would like to know how I could route all traffic from my Windows host machine through the ...
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Can OpenWRT serve with a switch and do IP filters and how?
OpenWRT allows one to configure the switch on the router in many ways - do VLANs and similar.
However can OpenWRT behave like a switch but also do IP based filters - allow all traffic from port A to B ...
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How to share socks proxied internet with OpenWrt
I have a router in which installed OpenWrt 22.03.3 and I do ssh root@192.168.1.1 into it. Then I run these two commands:
ssh -fnD 1010 root@my_public_server -pPort
Now I can have a socks proxy from ...
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Running OpenWrt with multiple USB Ethernet adapters to host subdomains on one VLAN (all using a single static IP) and a WireGuard VPN on another VLAN
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 model B running Openwrt with two additional USB Ethernet adapters . I have the onboard Ethernet port currently connected to the WAN. Wireguard is installed but not properly ...
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Dropbear agent key is visible in ssh connection but fail to fetch them with ssh_fetch_identitylist: agent refused operation
I observe some weird behaviour with regard to use of forwarded keys.
I access my router (OpenWRT 22.03) over SSH enabling key forwarding:
ssh -A root@192.168.xx.yy -p 2222
The socket for agent ...
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Wifi disconnects 2.4Ghz at specific places, 5Ghz works fine
I have a Tenda AC1200 AX10 router set up in AP mode, it is connected to a Raspberry Pi running OpenWRT, which is in turn connected to two ISP routers using TP-Link UE300 Ethernet to USB Adapter. The ...
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Disabling DHCP/bridging WAN on OpenWRT
I have an LTE Router (192.168.1.2) and an OpenWRT router (192.168.1.1) that I want to be the single entity providing WiFi, all with the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. The LTE Router is connected via ...
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Quaggga OSPFv3 won't configure routes
I'm trying to configure Quagga to use OSPFv3 to create proper IPv6 routes between two OpenWrt routers running OpenVPN (tun mode). I know the tunnel is working properly because it works if I configure ...
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How to set up DNS encryption on my home router?
I set up OpenWRT on my Belkin RT3200 and I want to have quad9 encrypted DNS with dnssec and Secure SNI, but I could not figure out how to set up DNScrypt correctly on my router and I'm not sure if ...
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I can't map a network share from PXE - WinPE
I have been working these days in deploying a iPXE server. I have made entries to several Linux distributions with no problem. Then, I started to add entries for Windows ISOs for Windows Installation ...
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OpenWRT cant reach pfsense router
Booted up a new Openwrt(22.03) AP(U6 Lite); it gets IP from pfsense router as well. But I can't ping the AP from pfsense or vice versa. Rather I can ping AP from the same LAN network, or AP can ping ...
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How to setup multiple wan connections in OpenWRT on MIPS router?
I have a router D-Link DIR-620 A1E. OpenWRT is installed on it and works, but some packages are not available (package "has no valid architecture, ignoring"). In particular, mwan3 cannot be ...
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nftables or fw4 issue with timebased traffic rules
Since the OpenWRT ver > 22.3 does use NFTABLES instead of IPTABLES
I got issue with some firewall (fw4) time based traffic rules that I
have no idea how to solve them.
The firewall rule is as ...
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OpenWRT Broadcast Packet Forwarding
I am trying to forward broadcast packets from one LAN to another LAN using OpenWRT. My setup looks like this:
(Netgear R6080 Router, OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r20168-b2681e584c / LuCI Master git-22.203.79817-...
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Route domain to mac address
I have router running OpenWrt 21.02.3. I also have a server that connects to this router via Ethernet. Other machines connect via Wifi.
The server is internal, so it's only meant to be accessible from ...
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The openwrt router cannot be accessed by the Internet after the IPv6 address is updated
My home has an openwrt router, which has the modem provided by the operator to assign IPv6 addresses. I also set up dynamic DNS for it to manage the devices at home at any time. Everything is normal, ...
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nftables: IPv6 NAT packets not going into forward chain but returned destination unreachable
I'm setting up NAT for IPv6 on an OpenWrt (22.03.0-rc4) router because my ISP only allocates one single IPv6 address via DHCPv6, and only allows one MAC address to use a single IPv6 address obtained ...
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Share Windows 10 Shared Wi-Fi with LAN
I've got a laptop w/ VPN software on it that I'm not Admin. It's capable of sharing WiFi and then I can connect from my other devices and access VPN resouces.
Problem is, my VPN laptop is now the ...
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mwan3 interface offline but not failovering to backup
I'm new to this and networking so would like to check if my config has issues.
I've been testing a recent failover setup I've done which is to use wan as the default connection and then failover to ...
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Wireguard WAN IP server accessible from router, but not LAN
I'm using a GL.inet router with OpenWRT OpenWrt 19.07.8 r11364-ef56c85848.
I have set up a Wireguard server on a remote machine. With the VPN not connected I can reach that server from my LAN using ...
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Does OpenWRT support 5GHz channels 50-144 on any hardware?
Taking United States as example.
I cannot parse United States section of Wikipedia article, but, per the 5GHz table section of the same article, 5GHz routers need to support both DFS and TPC in order ...
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modify a router's reply to macOS's reverse DNS query such that hostname defaults to the .local domain
I have read that on BSD/macOS/OS X, hostname is found from a search that includes a few places. One part of the search can be a reverse DNS lookup. For DNS lookup, I observe different behavior on ...
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opkg vs apt on openWrt
I am currently in the process of building a Raspberry Pi router which also runs an apache2 webserver and an FTP server.
Instead of apt, which I am used to, I have to use opkg. So I wondered, what are ...
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Mysterious device connected to my lan
I have a dlink router with openwrt installed on it. I have noticed that a device is connected to my lan connection, and i have no idea what is it! It has no hostname, its mac address is : F8:75:A4:22:...
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Can't access Node behind firewall (despite rules)
This is a similar but different query to another question I asked back in 2019. I thought it sufficiently different to break out into a new question.
I have written a Node Express app, which uses CORS ...
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How can you redirect all traffic to one IP or domain on your network?
How can you redirect all traffic to one IP or domain on your network?
So if you went to youtube.com or any IP it would redirect to one domain such as google.com
I have OpenWRT with 128MB of ram.
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Port forwarding with multiple WAN default routes in OpenWRT
I have an OpenWrt setup with multiple WAN connections, and a DNAT port redirect that provides access to a server in my LAN. I want my server to be accessible on both WAN connections simultaneously.
I ...
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Connect USB printer to an ethernet-only router
I have a XIAOMI Mi Router 4A Gigabit router and it is OpenWRT compatible. I was thinking of hooking up my Canon PIXMA E410 printer (which only has USB) to the router and setup a print server (p910nd/...
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Combining different manufacturers (router, WIFI repeaters) for a wifi mesh network
Background
We have a flat that is (almost) covered quite well by one WIFI router. One of my children now moves to another flat in the same house, that is not covered by our WIFI. I'd now like to ...
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Random WiFi disconnects or disassociations from Turris Omnia 2020
I have bought a new (wireless) router: Turris Omnia 2020 (link to the HTML specs, also the whole PDF). It is largely based on OpenWrt, it has it as a backend. When connected via RJ45 Cat6 cable - no ...
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Block all traffic except web proxy
My goal is to make Firefox on Windows access the internet via a web proxy that is on some hardware. I want to block Windows from accessing microsoft services and asking me things. My school had such a ...
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802.11s mesh_params documentation
I have connected 2 devices using an 802.11s mesh for Layer 2 bridging.
The first device is turned on most of the times, but the second one isn't. So, I am looking for a way to reduce the scanning ...
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Openwrt - Prevent devices from acquiring a global unicast IPv6 address
There are some IoT devices on my network which acquire a 2601: IPv6 address. Since that address falls in the range of my ISP, I assume these IoT devices are getting that assignment from some IPv6 DHCP ...
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Vpn server ip configuration
I am trying to run openVpn server on my router to access it's lan network remotely. I got next error when I try to run it:
daemon.err openvpn(myvpn)[7610]: Options error: --server directive
network/...
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Secure router port http traffic
I have ip cam in my router network. Is it possible to secure it's stream using some openwrt package? I can secure router ui by https with uhttpd package, but as far as I understand it will work with ...
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OpenWRT, ipv6 is not connected, I can't ping global ipv6 addresses, ipv4 is working fine though
I need help with my setup which is :
ISP router LAN port => OpenWRT router WAN port.
OpenWRT router LAN ports and WIFI => my home devices
I am running default OpenWRT out of the box ...
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OpenWRT, forward all incoming ipv6 WAN traffic for router’s WAN IP on port 3000 to one PC on LAN with a local ipv6 address
I need help with OpenWRT. I want to forward all incoming ipv6 WAN traffic destined for router's WAN IP on port 3000 to one PC on LAN with local ipv6 address.
I have tried
Firewall - Zone Settings =>...
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How do I configure OpenWRT/dnsmasq to not do reverese lookups for local IP addresses?
OpenWRT does a bunch of "reverse look-ups" for 108.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa, but the host-names for this should be known by OpenWRT as it DHCP assigned the local ip settings for these. I do ...
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Cannot route traffic between devices connected to the same WiFi hotspot under OpenWRT 21.02.1
I have a wireless home network set up around a router that I upgraded from OpenWRT 19.07 to 21.02.1 a couple of weeks ago. Two devices are connected to the router wirelessly, both of which are able ...
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OpenVPN and IPTABLES - How to assign lan (vpn) gateway to clients
I am trying to set up my openvpn network but I have a problem.
My LAN configuration is as follows:
main router Zyxel 192.168.1.1 acting as gateway (vdsl connection) and access point;
openwrt router ...
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OpenWRT dropbear - how to require BOTH key AND password for login?
I've just put OpenWRT on a Wi-Fi router I have and I'm setting it up. For reasons beyond my control, I've got a mandate to use multi-factor auth for all admin functions. Unfortunately, from what I've ...
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