GL-AR300m questions

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I received my GL-AR300M and so far everything is working great! I plan on using this as a transparent OpenVPN client (connecting to my router at home) for holidays and during my commute. I do have a couple of questions though.

  • How do I set the purpose of the middle LED, I want to be able to see if the VPN is up but can’t seem to get it working (looked in advanced settings under LED but a bit baffled what to set it to)

  • As OpenWRT has apparently been superceded by LEDE; when can we expect an LEDE 17 build in stead of the current (2.26) OpenWRT 15.05 version?

  • The included OpenVPN appears to be 2.4.0, however there are some vulnarabilities on all OpenVPN version before 2.4.3 (see https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243 ), do you plan on releasing an update for this?

 

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For the LED, upgrade to firmware v2.26 and it does what you want by default.

LEDE and OpenWrt is re-merging. It will happen quite soon. They will keep OpenWrt name. I think we will use the new OpenWrt 17.09 or something

If there is security things, yes, we will upgrade asap.

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Your link doesn’t work. Can you check and post the correct link?

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I am already running 2.26 so does that mean the middle LED is broken?

I didn’t realise LEDE and OpenWrt were re-merging, looking forward to the update. (even though the current version seems to be running great!)

I updated the first post, so the link should work! (Note that 2.4.0 is 3 versions behind the current one so I’d guess there are a couple of more vulnarabilites in the current build)

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LED seldom broken.

Can you check the content of the two files?

/etc/config/system

/etc/config/startvpn

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Sorry for the late reply, I actually do see the LED light up on boot so it appears to work.

Here are the files:

root@GL-AR300M:~# less /etc/config/system

config system
option conloglevel ‘8’
option cronloglevel ‘8’
option hostname ‘GL-AR300M’
option zonename ‘Europe/Amsterdam’
option timezone ‘CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3’

config timeserver ‘ntp’
list server ‘0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org’
list server ‘1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org’
list server ‘2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org’
list server ‘3.openwrt.pool.ntp.org’

config led ‘led_wlan’
option name ‘WLAN’
option sysfs ‘gl-ar300m:wlan’
option trigger ‘phy0tpt’

config led ‘vpn’
option default ‘0’
option name ‘vpn’
option trigger ‘netdev’
option dev ‘tun0’
option mode ‘link tx rx’
root@GL-AR300M:~# less /etc/config/startvpn
less: can’t open ‘/etc/config/startvpn’: No such file or directory

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Sorry it is /etc/init.d/startvpn

The system file, VPN led is not configured. This could be a bug in old firmware.

Now firmware v2.261 has been released. Can you please upgrade? Don’t reserve settings are /etc/config/system will be reserved.

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Upgraded to 2.261 (was running 2.26) and issue with the LED has been resolved :smiley: Thank you!