hints & tricks in no particular order
16/11/2023
I decided to revisit my setup for watching Japanese TV. So far I've been using Wireguard on a Netgear R6220 which has OpenWrt installed; but I want to give OPNsense a try. This will be on a little Protectli Vault FW4C appliance. Most of the tedious steps to retrieve the NordVPN configuration remains valid. Get your […]
17/09/2022
I own an OpenWrt router which I want connected to a VPN 24/7. Major VPN providers all support this scenario, however I currently have a NordVPN subscription so let's go with that for now. Wireguard is a bit more complex to setup than OpenVPN as NordVPN doesn't support this scenario. But performances are much, much […]
17/09/2022
I own an OpenWrt router which I want connected to a VPN 24/7. Major VPN providers all support this scenario, however I currently have a NordVPN subscription so let's go with that for now. There are 2 main options to run NordVPN on an OpenWrt router: OpenVPN and Wireguard. OpenVPN is the easiest but also slowest […]
10/11/2015
I needed to install Windows Server 2012 R2 on a PC with no optical drive and I didn't have any USB device to put the image on. I resorted on using a network install through PXE. I found a great win app to do so, Serva. Serva is a tiny (~1 Mb), yet powerful Microsoft Windows application. It was conceived mainly as an […]
20/07/2014
20/07/2014
French ISP Free provides TV multicast ("multiposte") on top of its own Freeplayer box as long as you use its box in router mode. Unfortunately the Freebox router itself is rather limited; I've got a DD -WRT router behind it and the Freebox is in bridge mode. To enable multicast, Freeplayer must be on both the local […]
09/07/2014
When migrating some VM from vmware to HyperV, I noticed some strange behaviors that were confirmed by running the bginfo tool: some network adapters were hidden in the background, waiting to cause some weird errors someday (especially because of the MAC address cloning...) Therefore, I found some articles to clean up […]
07/07/2014
This is an update of the original article Setup OpenVPN Server on Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT. Have a look for the certificates generation (easy rsa stuff). I recently bought an Asus RT-N16 router with VPN capabilities. However it turned out that the included VPN was not as slick as I wanted to. Most builds of DD-WRT […]
22/06/2014
I flashed a wrong dd-wrt firmware on my WHR-HP-G300N -- I flashed WHR-G300N instead. Notice the two missing letters... Nothing prevented me to flash this image, but after reboot I only got a solid red led (DIAG). Trouble! It's been quite "fun" to bring it back to life. Following several guides I was poking in the dark, […]
01/06/2014
I acquired a Netgear ReadyNAS, not a very powerful one but quite unexpensive and good hack potential, as it is based on Debian on ARM. The OS version is ReadyNAS 6.1.8 at the time of writing. After installing Transmission (through an app) and OpenVPN (through apt-get) quite easily, I wanted to route Transmission […]
03/11/2013
In an attempt to secure my internet connection, I setup OpenVPN on a OpentWRT enabled router: a good old Linksys WRT54G v3.1. The best firmware for this router seems to be OpenWRT Backfire 10.03.1 (brcm-2.4) (LuCI 0.10.0) (also in attachment of this page). The upgrade is very easy from the Linksys or (DD-WRT) web GUI […]
30/11/2010
As of DD-WRT v.24 SP1, it is now possible to set up DD-WRT as an OpenVPN server. Which is a pretty good thing, because I needed to setup one of these beasts! I used Windows as a client, but also to generate the various configuration, certificate and key files. Initial setup First, install OpenVPN for Windows. At the […]