Suggestion: Technical Support for Routers: New Category: HOW-TOs

[bring.fringe18]

Per above. Such a category may help ensure always relevant user-contributed HOW-TOs such as

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Table of Contents

• Applications
• Network Administration
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
• Flashing & Recovery
• Device Specific

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Applications

AdGuard Home

How to update Adguard?

The following commands are upgraded and record with SSH on the AX1800. You will need to manually close AdGuard Home on the page before performing this. [image] curl -L -S -o '/tmp/AdGuardHome_linux_armv7.tar.gz' -s\ > 'https://static.adguard.com/adguardhome/release/AdGuardHome_linux_armv7.tar.gz' cd /etc/AdGuardHome/ mkdir -p ~/my-agh-backup cp -r ./config.yaml ./data ~/my-agh-backup/ tar -C /tmp/ -f /tmp/AdGuardHome_linux_armv7.tar.gz -x -v -z ./AdGuardHome/ cp /tmp/AdGuardHome/AdGuardH…

Backup

HOW-TO: Script: List My OPKGs (to a file for backup)

Keywords: backup, opkg, plugins, list, howto, script, shell, luci, restore, ipk, tarball, conf Description List user’s (your) installed packages, writing them to a text file that can be used to reinstall the binaries of what a user manually installed. The resulting .list file will be use to opkg install to pull from the feeds. That is done with two commands in one execution. The GL GUI doesn’t feature a backup function. Creating & restoring a backup achieve (.tar.gz, aka tarball) of all your…

Network Administration

Static DHCP Leases

How do you bulk insert reserved IPs (static leases)? Here's the answer! (Slate AX)

Not a technical support request, but there are no other forums to post this in. I am hoping this could help someone who Google’s a similar request in the future. After much playing around in Luci (advanced settings) and Googling, trying to find out how I can import my large list of reserved IPs, I have found my answer. Here’s what I did: Login to the router, advanced settings, login with the same password you used to login to the main interface, system, software. Search for openssh-sftp-serv…

Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

WireGuard

Schedule VPN Wireguard ON / OFF

Hi all, I would like to know if it’s possible to schedule a task to enable my VPN (Wireguard) server during lets midnight till 9am everyday. Basically what I want to achieve is to only accept connections in my vpn server during those hours. Thank you!

Site to Site

Building a Site-2-Site network manually using two GL.iNet routers(SDK 4.X)

This post is to introduce the guide to config WireGuard LAN to LAN VPN (Site-2-Site) based on GL-iNet SDK 4.X fimrware. Supported Models Router Model Stable Beta GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) √ - GL-AXT1800 (Slate AX) √ - GL-A1300 (Slate Plus) √ - GL-X3000 (Spitx AX) √ - GL-AX1800 (Flint) √ - GL-MT2500 (Brume 2) √ - GL-AR300M (shadow) - √ GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango) - √ GL-E750 (Mudi) - √ GL-SFT1200 (Opal) - √ GL-MT1300 (Beryl) - √ GL-X750 (Spitz) - √ GL-XE300 (Pul…

Service Providers

Nord VPN

Slate AXT1800 with Nordvpn Nordlynx (wireguard) working just fine

Slate AXT1800 with Nordvpn Nordlynx (wireguard) working just fine. I used this tutorial to extract the configuration file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY0fxTfi_us [gl-axt1800]

Surfshark

VPN/WireGuard Client connects but no DOH/dnscrypt-proxy2 DNS connectivity

Update: 2023-06-27-1220 Surfshark advises modelling conf as if using Linux’s NetworkManager client: added listen port 32, MTU 1280 IP Masquerading on, Manual DNS to Cloudflare Result: near line speed on SpeedTest.net; Cloudflare ‘overridden’ to Surfshark’s DNS IPs. 🗹 Will attempt DOH/dnscrypt-proxy2 via Cloudflare as time permits. Update: 2023-06-27-2336 107.181.187.108, VAN, BC via Surfshark DOH/CLOUDFLARENET (IPv4)

Flashing & Recovery

GL-iNet AX1800 debricking by USB and TFTPD

You’re excited to upgrade to a custom firmware and ended up overwriting uboot with the wrong file. Router LED no longer lighting up when power is applied. Router no longer work as expected, no network and nothing you can do. Reset and debricking procedure using uboot not applicable at this state. When people say your router is bricked, generally it means it no longer function. The following procedure is provided by the helpful and kind GL-iNet staff (hansome). Text instructions were in Chine…

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Device Specific

Routers

Travel

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

[Tutorial] Tailscale on GL-SF1200, GL-SFT1200 (Opal)

Automatic installation Lanrat’s Tailscale Repository echo "src/gz openwrt-tailscale https://lanrat.github.io/openwrt-tailscale-repo/packages/19.07" >> "/etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf" opkg update opkg install tailscale It’s not compressed as of writing this (30MB binary), but it’s much easier to install, and now supports our architecture Manual compilation and installation Prerequisites A GL.iNet SiFlower router, like the Opal (GL-SFT1200) A Linux system (or WSL2 on Windows) to build Tailsca…

Hotels, Motels, B’n’Bs, Cruises: Captive Portals

Captive Portal Strategies

I’ve had problems with captive portals, particularly with my Chromebooks (looking at you Delta), and I see others have had, so I thought I would put down a few notes in case it would be helpful. Some captive portals operate through a form of DNS poisoning. When you make a connection to a wifi router, you get an IP and a DNS server. Mobile devices, most modern OSs and browsers will immediately run a captive portal detection test by issuing a DNS request through port 80 for some identified serve…

Cellular, 4G/5G, GPS

[howto] GL-X3000 GPS configuration guide

My GL-X3000 arrived this week, and I tried to configure its GPS capabilities, since the 5G model contains a pretty nice multi-constellation GPS receiver. The use-case for this is to make the receiver available on the local network via the gpsd protocol, so that it can be used by navigation software/hardware if needed. Of course it is not meant to replace a dedicated high precision GPS, but rather as a backup in case the main GPS fails. It was surprisingly easy to get it configured, so I thoug…

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are easily found & not buried deep within the forums.

[admon]

@hansome Could you arrange such a category inside this forum for us?

[bring.fringe18]

@alzhao

To be more specific, I’d highly suggest this for vetted/confirmed working HOW-TOs:

Docs

Templates would be recommended given how many questions are just variations on a theme.

Templates

Bonus points: Everybody like proper private messaging:

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