I have a single device on my network that I want all of its traffic to go through a VPN. Configuring my router to act as a VPN client and the route only that device’s traffic through that tunnel was a nice project for me. Got some learning done along the way.
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Set it to the wrong country code and start using them illegal wifi frequencies.
not worry about it phoning home all the shit you're doing to shady ass companies.. also you can set up vpn servers, configure all the shiznut to your heart's content..
i miss having openwrt. no one has made it compatible with the newest 10gig routers yet so i'm stuck with shitty tplink firmware
Why do you need a 10gig router?
If you have homelab, it's kinda a necessity. Especially if you have multiple servers that are constantly screaming at each other or running backups.
Anything less will heavily limit your fileio speed since 10G is only ~1GB/s best case, and that's likely going to be split across many connected devices.
Oh. I see problems ahead with my OoenWRT. F.
You can always get a different router box that supports 10G and use the WRT as a node.
I had an OPNSense router that used to be a digital signage PC (one that used Ethernet to control the TVs) and I was able to slap a NIC card in there and get it up to 10G. The SFP ports are definitely where it's at if you have a fiber connection, or want to directly link two servers tho.
because i have a 10gig internet connection
You can set up various subnets and assign devices to them + firewall them off (like isolate a smart tv).
You can set up advanced DNS features (this is very powerful). Obfuscate your DNS, as locking DNS, use VPN DNS, use encrypted DNS, set up a home-focused domain, give yourself a good subnet and named hosts controlled by the router.
You can set up powerful firewalls and poke specific holes in them to support clients that need that.
You can set up pihole or similar which is mostly DNS but can do a bit more.
You can run various small services that coordinate with other computers. Like you can make your uninterruptible power supply "oh shit" control node be the router, have it turn off your other networked computers.
You can have it run dynamic DNS.
You can have it run / host various tunnels, including a way to get lan access remotely in a way that is highly secure.
You can do vlan stuff (but depending on hardware some aspects may be slow).
You can schedule various things to happen at various times, like kicking out connections that have certain patterns or have been connected too long with no traffic.
You can give certain devices higher traffic priority. Like maybe your laptop or phone always gets first dibs.
You can sniff out and detect attempts to scrape your WiFi password.
Will it run pineapple?
You're speaking my language
you can route device connect event via mqtt to lights or something home assistant friendly, if you have beefy router you can run whole assistant on it, but it’s very dodgy for now and it’s a heavy app
Yeah, I don't think this router will handle home assistant well, but an mqtt server would work
there were some work to pull the movement detection as well, but last I checked they were heavy as shit or required offloading signal processing
I use OpenWRT to
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route all traffic through my VPN (which also does adblock)
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create a guest wifi that can't access my LAN
I don't do anything too fancy with it tbh. Maybe I should sometime.
Configure cake aqm/sqm
Nothing, you practically bricked it.
I'd be surprised if it doesn't burn your apartment down within a week.
How do you know where I live?