Usually I'm monitoring stuff with Icinga [http://www.icinga.org] (Nagios in the past). But for my small network, I primary needed monitoring of bandwidth. In our commercial environment we are using a closed source software for accounting traffic. There is also a license for testing purpose with a reduced…
A try with OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 8.09 in April to setup a WDS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System] with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation [http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html#x1-210001.2.2], failed [https://dev.openwrt.org/…
Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS [http://blog.waja.info/2006/06/27/we-got-some-linksys-wrtsl54gs-imported-from-us/] to OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 0.9 with X-WRT [http://www.x-wrt.org] 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it,…
I was searching half a night and 2 hours today to get a Linksys Router working a wireless bridge with WPA(2) encryption. I tried Openwrt [http://openwrt.org] White Russian RC5 and DD-Wrt [http://www.dd-wrt.com] V23 SP1 and many combinations of WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES. The bridge…
Okay ... we got the serial port running (same like WRT54GS), so we could be more risky. After some tries I decided to work analog the WRT54G models. Successfull was the following modifications to factory (linksys) defaults: > nvram set vlan0ports="0 1 2 5*" nvram set vlan1ports="4 5*" nvram set…
[https://log.cyconet.org/content/images/2006/06/wrtsl54gs.jpeg] Don´t ask how, but we got some units to europe. The first thing we does, was to install openwrt [http://www.openwrt.org] and to try debridge the switch to have multiple interfaces instead. We was able to remove…
At first ... I'm not responsible, if you brick your router by using this documentation. If your fear it would be possible, stop HERE! The following NVRAM-Settings need to take place: > !/bin/sh Port 0 into WAN, 5 Router themselv nvram set vlan1hwname=et0 nvram set vlan1ports="0 5" Port 2,…
Today I was finally soldering the Serial Mod I got from Stephanie Lange [http://hamburg.freifunk.net/twiki/bin/view/Technisches/BasteleienUndBausaetze#Linksys_WRT54G_GS_Dualserial_Mod] and got the serial console working on a WRT54G V2.0 model. [https://log.cyconet.org/content/images/2005/10/100_6115.jpg]…