G+_Jeff Brand Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I haven't checked DD-WRT's own docs in years but they did a good job of documenting it themselves. I would rather see a reference to existing documentation and KH cover new ground. (Combining topics) If I recall, DD-WRT VLAN support is chipset dependent. I've used it to secure cafe business and public wifi by partitioning the wifi device away from the private network. On an instance without VLAN support I used firewall rules and two subnets to achieve a similar result. I'm personally out of touch with the latest in DD-WRT. When I last looked it seemed to be in maintenance mode (no active improvements) but otherwise complete and stable. Has some other project picked up where it left off? I think the audience would also enjoy looking at PirateBox and its forks, LibraryBox and others. I flashed a TP-Link 3G router with it and will be looking into significant modification as well as contributing back to the core project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Pepe La Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 This very router was passed along to me from family, already flashed. I would enjoy watching the process just for the (know how), but it's your call. I was able to perform the version update for the particular router on my own which went surprisingly smooth with just a little effort of searching and reading. I use this router and it's many features as one of a few internal routers, keeping my ISP's locked down, less secure provided modem / router separate (external) from my working LAN's. I would enjoy taking notes and comparing my applied settings with yours in order to ensure I have the actual proper configurations. Enjoy the show always, CP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 I'll probably cover it a bit down the line... really want to get into the juicy bits. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 One other thing that greatly interest me is mesh networking. I don't have much need for it, but someday I could see it being necessary for geeks to roll our own Internet. I could also see it useful for neighborhoods where you could have a single fiber connection then mesh the service out to everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_T Nohands Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 So Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ as mentioned before about the massive network project on a budget I'm looking at building routers or better said routing servers for a network core and possibly the exterior edge router to the internet I have two questions most of the firmware you are talking/introducing on these segments can be installed on a home built machines that have hardware that are not available on routers any consumer can afford such as Cisco high end isr 2900 and 3900 series and not even a consideration for consumers the ASR 9000 series the idea being modular and customizable would getting the hard ware and having these firmware options you are discussing about can do custom firmware for your needs. would that offer a stable alternative to Cisco for us crazy geeks wanting to have instant secure stable scalability? My second question Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ is for those of us building from scratch an extensive complex network could use some toys that you use yourself such as Fluke pro equipment well I doubt most of us can just purchase a Fluke One touch device or borrow one as a tech priest to review, yet it occurred to me that almost any laptop has the hardware to run such complex tests does Fluke have software that could be put on a laptop or other software not made by Fluke that can dissect and analyze network issues? could you work any of this into your networking segments? Especially the second question to explore detectable issues what they mean and how to fixe them when wiring up a home or building for the first time, and might be good to cover separating cables and simple tricks to shield them from interference from each other and power cables and trick of Faraday to improve wifi performance I especially like Faraday paint that some government facilities use basically tiny powdered copper and aluminum into the paint, oops hope I don't get my friends into trouble but with this stuff it can be a cage or antenna even boost or overload and shut down nearby wifi or even tech all based on where you put the paint and what you hook up to the object you paint maybe something you and Brian Chee can talk about on This Weekk In Enterprise Tech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_T Nohands Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ could any of these firmware work on managed switches? possibly turning a managed switch with usb ports into more advanced equipment where you could attach a flash drive or ssd to create a device that can use software on those drives to increase abilities such as improved VLAN and improve or add LACP or other forms of uplinking and link aggregation with port link agg assignment to speedup or secure connections by using port agg with some ports passing packets only one way or the other to create organized express lanes of traffic for packet transfers so it makes port tapping a little harder? just a though Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 1. VLANs 2. Client/Client Bridge modes 3. Repeater mode 4. Yagi/Cantenna long-distance links 5. Earth-moon-earth Yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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