Usually I'm monitoring stuff with Icinga (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 number of sensors available.…
A try with OpenWRT 8.09 in April to setup a WDS with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation, failed. So I keeped with my halfbroken solution running on DD-WRT, which is going a bit too commercial these days in my eyes. Now I have found…
Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS to OpenWRT 0.9 with X-WRT 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it, I noticed that partitions get mounted by '/etc/hotplug.d/usb/01-mount' like this:…
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 White Russian RC5 and DD-Wrt V23 SP1 and many combinations of WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES. The bridge works well with WEP and without any…
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…
Don´t ask how, but we got some units to europe. The first thing we does, was to install openwrt and to try debridge the switch to have multiple interfaces instead. We was able to remove ports from the switch, but cant create additional working vlans like on WRT54G. So…
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"…
Today I was finally soldering the Serial Mod I got from Stephanie Lange and got the serial console working on a WRT54G V2.0 model. Welcome to minicom 2.1 OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n Compiled on Mar 29 2005, 09:39:09. Press CTRL-A Z…