While my wife was busy running some errands, I also took the opportunity to shop for some 'toys' of my own 😆
Of course, the Xiaomi will be set up to run OpenWRT.
Dear friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
today is a classic Monday. I spent part of the day reprogramming Mikrotik CAP ACs, whose wireless performance isn't top-notch (lacking features like fast roaming). I've managed to install OpenWRT and they seem more efficient, but we'll only know for sure in the coming days. A new minor release of Mastodon is out, and I'll be updating soon. Though it doesn't contain security patches, there's no rush. Meanwhile, I'm monitoring a disk that seems to be throwing bad blocks (which ZFS has corrected, but I'm keen to understand what's happening).
Here at home, the combined modem/router box provided by the ISP is installed on the ground floor and serves as the access point (AP) that provides wireless internet access. I wanted to create a subnet on a different floor that uses a router with wired ethernet ports and more flexible network tools.
I've been on the search for a #mesh#WiFi option that supports multiple SSID associated to tagged #VLAN, which span into the LAN. I do this now with #FreshTomato to my #pfSense router. But I need better WiFi coverage.
So far, it's looking like #OrbiPro and #DrayTek devices do this, but one isn't high on my expectations list and one isn't easily acquired in the US. So I'm trying the Orbi Pro and we'll see...
Today's $dayjob shenanigans. Building #OpenWrt from scratch as a #VirtualBox VM for sandbox testing DHCP PXE boot settings, then re-compiling to run on a BT Hub 5a for deployment in a lab.
Not very retro at all, but we all have to have a break sometime. 😊
I have an #OpenWRT router. Let’s say I install Tailscale on it and want to create an interface that specifically routes to one of my exit nodes. Can I do that?
Everything I’ve seen about Tailscale on OpenWRT just provides direct router access to the tailnet (100.x.x.x), but I specifically want to route certain traffic to an exit node.
Can I do this? Do me proud, Fediverse! Hoping I can get good answers here without resorting to Reddit.
So far so good - reflashing was as simple as offering the #OpenWRT image to the stock firmware's update page.
I'm still amazed how far open source has come - I remember assembling a PC and having to carefully select all the components to make sure they'd be supported on Linux, and often putting up with some limited functionality.
I've spent some time why a new (and an old) #wax220 seem to drop #wifi connection completely when trying to #speedtest from an iPhone. The test goes up to 500+ Mbits (1Gb downstream), then suddenly the wifi switches off, with the phone either complaining that it can't connect to wifi, or just going to 4G. The AP logs show wifi_sys_disconn_act() and hw_ctrl_flow_v2_disconnt_act() among others, followed by MacTableDeleteEntry(). It takes 10-15 seconds for the wifi to be able to connect again.
I turned to a dlink DAP-X1860 with #OpenWRT and it worked all right, at least for a while, which made me realise that the WAX220 has now an easy way of installing the latest 23.05 too (no serial port soldering needed). Then it turned out this WAX220 does the same disconnection with OpenWRT too! (Whaa....????) After a few hours I found out it's indeed the iPhone deciding that the channels are too busy and 80/160MHz can't be used reliably on 5GHz, and that dlink can make it fail just as well.
Bruh It's been a whole week of trying to get #openwrt right and I just finally got there.. It's highly flexible but I couldn't get in a rhythm with this thing. The documentation and finding answers is stupid or I'm stupid.. could be both. However, it saved me a couple hundred bucks by re-purposing old hardware I was trying to get rid of anyway.
@tony@unixsh_it@bloor If your router were #OpenWRT >= 22.03 it would use nft. And regarding v4/v6: I'd argue any reasonable rule design would have one chain per host or groups of hosts. Within that chain you then have just the per-port rules, and you have two rules jumping to that chain: one for v4 and one for v6. If you have more than two open ports per host[group], you gain a lot with nft in terms of readability, lack of duplicated rules, ...
The Raspberry Pi 5 is 2.5x faster than the Pi 4 (sometimes more!), and I have the FULL rundown — let me walk you through it in this thread. #RaspberryPi#Pi5
@geerlingguy awesome news and thanks for the great summary! I'm very curious if its PCIe might be suitable to turn it into a beefy (multi radio?) WiFi #mesh node for our #Freifunk project. Preferably with #Mediatek (or #Qualcomm) 802.11ax cards on #OpenWrt. The CPU power would be very handy for our encapsulating layer 2 mesh routing protocol #batman_adv and VPNs. And no more of this annoying too low flash/RAM sizes we frequently have with ordinary WiFi routers... #MeshNetwork