So far I haven't had much luck. Anyone able to give me a hint on how to do this?

Thanks!

Hello, I’m looking for a router without Wi-Fi or antennas, with low power consumption and OpenWrt compatibility. Do you have any model to recommend?
Currently, I’m using a YouHua WR1200JS, but it occasionally has bugs.

Thx

I have 5x VLANS. VLAN8 is management. It only works on router port5. I want to physically limit router management to that.

Right now my VLAN4 can access with 192.168.4.1

I could do firewall rules to block .4.1, .5.1, etc. Or only allow destination .x.1 if the source is VLAN8.

Not sure the right way to do this. Advice?

Hello everyone. I just started learning about networking, and found a video about modifying your router. I decided to give it a try, so I install OpenWRT in my linksys WRT54GL. The problem now is that I forgot the password to login in OpenWRT. I've been looking through the internet and tried using the telnet and SSH commands in command prompt. I put the router in failsafe mode (which I hope is the power and DMZ lights blinking), I put my Ip in static (192.167.1.2, in Ethernet. Not in Ethernet 3). However, none of them seems to work since with telnet it says: "Connecting to 192.168.1.1... Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" and with SSH it says: "ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.1 port 22: Connection timed out". So now I have no idea what to do next to reset the password. Any help would be appreciated.

anybody knows if TL-WR1502X is supported?

Hey all!

Been trying to change the mac address of the WAN port on a Cudy AX3000 that is running openwrt. However no matter what I try - its always the same mac. I have tried changing in /etc/config/network - it won't pick up the new mac.

Any ideas on how to do it? I believe the entire thing is using a variation of the same mac, on WAN/LAN. So perhaps I need to change it in the dts file before compiling?

Let me know please, I am struggling here lol.

Thank you!

Hello.

Long time basic openwrt user, never went deep really.

Pretty much the title, I assume it's a driver/hw limitation on the router with all the pppoe overhead?

Or am I missing some setting that should be changed when switching to pppoe wan?

Default installation gives only 300mbps after switching wan interface to pppoe instead of DHCP client with my previous ISP(600+Mbps).

As a last chance I flashed back to factory firmware...bam 900+Mbps

Wondering if I missed something or it's a technical limitation of sort? I understand pppoe is more demanding.

With my new ISP there's a gpon Huawei echolife hg8245h before the asus to terminate the fiber. Direct pppoe from it with pc worked fine 900+ while the Asus was on openwrt still.

Thanks for any hints.

I am looking for the best OpenWRT Access Point (Wifi reliability, range and speed in the EU). So I don't care about router functionality, wireguard, etc. I purely want to use them as Access Points. For that, I think x86 and custom ARM are probably not the best choice. The threads I found here all care about router functionality, that's why I am creating this post.

2x 10 Gbit would be great but looks unrealistic.

Wi-Fi 6E would be nice, but I don't see there being a big choice. Wi-Fi 7 is unfortunately completely unsupported.

Currently, it looks like the GL.iNet Flint 2 might be the best choice, but I would love to hear other suggestions.

My RT3200 went through an issue where I tried to update and it appears to have broken my bootloader. I want to use JTAG to reflash the router. What usb jtag device (and software) is best for this?

Hello

I have both Linksys EA7500 ans Linksys EA8300. Which of the two is best suited to act as router for my home network? The router would mainly act as wired gateway (router, switch, HDCP) to my internet provider. With 3 other devices connected over wired connections as access-points.

I installed OpenWrt on an RPi5 using a 128GB SD card. The problem is that after every shutdown or reboot, the SD card (sda1) becomes write-protected due to filesystem corruption. For example:
EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p2): ext4_lookup:1855: inode #2474274: comm mount: iget: bad extra_isize 7144 (inode size 256).

So far, I’ve been using fsck.ext4 to fix it, but now even that doesn’t work. The SD card is brand new, so I’m confident it’s not a hardware issue. It seems the problem is related to how the system is being shut down. Any advice please?

Hi. I am seeking info on running openwrt on rk35xx boards specifically Orange pi 5 series. Any help would be appreciated.

I installed openwrt on Deco M5. I then connected the router to ISP router with internet using ethernet.

I am using Adguard Home but after connecting to Deco M5 wifi, there is no internet connection. Also without ethernet, I am not able to access webUI.

Please help.

I've had a script on my OpenWRT router for many years. After I updated to 23.05.5, it shows me an error because it doesn't recognize the "fi" command. It's a simple "if... then... fi" loop. What do I need to install?

Hi, This may be a poor question because my English is not good enough.

Can the following models be Extrooted ?

[Buffalo WXR-5950AX12] and [ASUS RT-AC88U]

So, I'm running openwrt 23.05.5 on my Archer AX23 V1.20.
Everything was alright except for a few bumps here and there, but today suddenly when I did a bufferbloat test on the 5GHz WIFI, the latencies went to shit.

https://preview.redd.it/9c2boz6n4f1e1.jpg?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b3fcd9c83dbecb36a9a4fcafa3d83330bc9485d

I did a test yesterday, and I was getting the unloaded latency around 33-34ms. It dropped suddenly today, and I've check with ethernet on my pc, it's the same as before. I use full wpad, usteer (for roaming), and sqm. but I did not change any setting prior to the results I got today.

What could be the issue here?!

P.S: I'm not too literate about the CLI stuff, I can only perform basic actions on the CLI, and I mainly use LuCI for the most part.

I used the proxmox helper script to make an openWRT VM on my proxmox server, I made two linux bridges, one for wan and one for lan. I left everything on defaults (the openwrt vm used my origional linux bridge (connected to my home network already). However, when I try to connect to 192.168.1.1 it obviously shows my home router's page not openwrt. I tried just connecting my computer to that brige it is already using to connect but I still couldnt. I even tried switching it to one of my new bridges(in the vm hardware tab) I made to connect to LuCI and still couldnt connect. Any ideas? Am I just being really dumb here? Any help/Insight is appreciated.

My router is Linksys E8450. I followed the GitHub repository https://github.com/dangowrt/owrt-ubi-installer to install OpenWRT 22.03.3. I then installed the Attended Sysupgrade package and the latest version for my device is 22.03.7.

However, on E8450 OpenWRT wiki https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450, it shows that the latest version is 23.05.5.

I saw some warnings on the issue Kiss of Death (KOD) on E8450. I don't know if I should upgrade or not. If I choose to upgrade, should I use the Attended Sysupgrade to upgrade to 22.03.7? Or just download the 23.05.5 sysupgrade file and use System -> Backup/Flash Firmware -> Flash new firmware image?

Hello i have a device that ax3200 and its bricked so when i try to debrick to device i have a problem that last section about tiny pxe application

https://preview.redd.it/2f5h0b3af31e1.png?width=659&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f04e401afa19556cb07b35f676d0d2b79e02ae7

I'm unplugging the router and holding reset button until orange light blinks when it blinks nothing happens on tiny pxe server. It should have accept the stock firmware but somehow not going forward. Waited like 30 minutes also tried another IPv4 servers. I cant solve "DHCPc no other DHCPd discovered" issue normally it wasnt happening before but now something changed and i cant get it. Can anyone help me about it?

I found 8 Wifi 6 routers on the TOH (Table of Hardware) but no Wifi 6E routers. Is that correct that there are no Wifi 6E routers supported by OpenWRT?

I found these in the table of hardware with Wifi 6 and at least 2 2.5GbE ports. Wondering about the community's impressions, which would be better for general performance, wifi speed and range, reliability, and overall quality?

I have 600MB symmetrical internet and several devices with 10GbE ethernet ports and my Netgear R7000 with DDWRT is not keeping up. Looking to move to one of these with OpenWrt.

TP-Link XDR-6086
Buffalo WXR-5950AX12
QNAP QHora-301W
TP-Link XDR-6088
TP-Link XDR-4288
ZyXEL EX5601-T0
GL.iNet GL-MT6000
ASUS TUF-AX6000

Thanks

Hi, I have installed openwrt in proxmox vm and it works well. The problem is that when I use remote exit node with Tailscale the opkg does not get anything because internet connection error but I do have internet access and it is routed through the exit node as expected.

Does anyone know what is the problem here? I have internet connection I can even ping google from the router but opkg does not work.

Thanks

Hello

ive installed the OpenWrt Image

ModelZyXEL GS1900-24HP v2Platformrealtek/rtl838xVersion23.05.5 (r24106-10cc5fcd00)
initramfs Image

After installation, i tried to install the sysupgrade.

AFter upload and install the switch restarts and eversthing is in initramfs mode again.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

I love my OpenWRT setup and currently I am running it on cheap x86-64 platform with 2.5Gbe ports. Works great.

I plan to replace my internet connection next year with 10Gbe and was wondering if there is some cheap PC platform with relatively low power consumption that can utilize some $15 mellanox dual 10GBe cards for 10Gbe routing.

So far, I found Intel C3556 platforms, that are OK and have 10GBe ports, but are quite expensive and in many tests they failed to catch up with 10Gb traffic, usually ending up with 6-7Gb. The other extreme is $2.000+ machines with Xeon processors.

I was wondering if there isn't some home-labber friendly 1 liter PC with PCI-e able to house the above mentioned mellanox and run my OpenWRT.

Im considering getting the Acer Predator Connect W6 Wifi 6E router. I noticed its on the support list, but from I have learned, it doesn't mean much. I have seen routers like the Netgear R7000 on the support list and it doesn't even have support for the Wireless card. does the Predator Connect W6 have good support with OpenWRT?

I want to share my internet with my neighbor wirelessly. Here is my setup:

isp router in bridge mode

Connected to router 1 (not openwrt) via lan cable

Router 1 is providing wifi coverage on 2.4 and 5ghz to my devices approximately 20 devices.

Now i have openwrt router which must be connected via 2.4ghz due to distance from main router. Then it should provide coverage for my neighbour.

Currently i am running it as ap with its own subnet everything is perfect except my neighbor is behind double NAT.

Will it be wise to extend my network via relayd or there are better options? Due to very messy documentation of openwrt its very hard to get things together.

Also can i log mac and ip addresses connected to openwrt due to security reasons? With current setup i can and am writing to syslog server on my laptop.

Hi guys, I've bought a mini pc a month ago and flashed 23.05.5 squashfs image into it. And expanded the disk to 448gb everything works flawless except some docker images; some of the images i try to pull via luci-app-dockerman returns me an error of

failed to register layer: lsetxattr security.capability /usr/bin/ping: operation not supported

As i see on the internet and the official forum its a kernal config problem and some others have fixed it by using external usb drives or disks.

The thing i want to ask you is; is it possible to divide my 448gb disk to 48gb/400gb, 48gb for sda2(currently 448gb), and 400gb for sda3(for docker images, containers etc.) and format it btrfs, xfs or ext4(if this works with docker).

OR if there are any easier methods i should try first can you explain me what and how should i do and please do not forget that im a dummie while you are explaining. Thanks a lot.

Hey there.
Even though some might feel that a router/firewall should be installed on hardware, I'd like to install OpenWRT on a VM. But the procedure seems a bit complicated and it is failing.

Can someone give me a hand trying to make this work?

Apparently, I need to extract the img.gz into a img file. Done that.
Then I need to create my own machine and add that img as a bootable hdd. Done that too.

At first the darned thing wouldn't even boot. Until I changed from scsi or sata to plain ide AND changed from EFI to BIOS in the VM settings. BTW this is a ESXi 7.0.

Now it starts booting up, but it comes to a halt before finishing the boot up.
It seems to be similar to this https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/s7rnhg/openwrt_x86_on_esxi_stuck_during_boot_while/

https://preview.redd.it/0i7n9xwd6v0e1.png?width=597&format=png&auto=webp&s=479eee41e616a7958e57c1c9874dd373c4335969

Any tips?
TIA
Cheers

Hi, I am creating a solution to block kids devices on-demand on my home network. I have the following so far:

index=$(uci show firewall | grep 'Test_Block_Rule' | cut -d "[" -f2 | cut -d "]" -f1)
uci set firewall.@rule[$index].enabled='1'
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall reload

This works, but does not drop EXISTING connections from the devices specified in the rule. What is the best way to cut all connections from the devices specified in the rule immediately?

Update: Adding conntrack -D -s <IP> to the list of commands results in all existing connections from the specified IP being dropped immediately.