I've used many of these aftermarket firmwares and i'm super impressed by the time and effort they've all put into creating great products that people can use without cost that also enables them to extend a router's life nearly indefinitely. It's become a hobby for me to play with the various firmware on every router i buy. I have dozens of consumer wifi routers, and they've provided hours of entertainment.
I've been using OpenWRT for what must be a decade, now. I've learned many of its ins and outs and I can use it with a reasonable degree of competence, but I have a very limited knowledge of Linux in general and Linux networking in particular, so the discussion about IPtables vs NF Tables and DSA vs swconfig tend to make my eyes glaze over. I've spent a fair bit of time trying to educate myself on these topics but they require more time and energy than I can commit to so I'm happy to just use OpenWRT as a slightly-above-average normie. That said I always enjoy your OpenWRT videos.
Hi Helman, that's a really great comment and I must admit that this is kind of the flip side of the OpenWrt medal - it requires time and effort.... I fully understand what you mean. Now - the good news (at least with nftables) is that the user interface has not changed a bit. With DSA that was different ;-)
Thanks for the update Marc. I generally wait for the stable release before upgrading but knowing what changes are coming and where I need to update my knowledge in advance is a huge help. Thank you for taking the time to make such great videos explaining this - they’re great to watch and a huge help :-)
So glad I found you! Got a used Linksys Smart EA6350 because my TP-Link only had was getting old in the teeth for OpenWrt. Now I know where to go for help (OpenWrt forums are snarky). I flashed, Jtag error. I flashed the latest Linksys firmware: Jtag error and it soft bricked. So I reset it in every way (power on, power off) and let it sit an hour while I found the first firmware for the router. It flashed fine and then I flashed OpenWrt 22. Sucess! Now I'm trying to get the USB to work, but now I know to just SSH in and copy paste the packages instead of using the Luci GUI. Then, I need to get the Pihole integrated. But at least I am not trying to reinvent my OpenWrt alone. It has been fine for years and I was scared to try. Thanks for keeping it simple!
Hey Marc! Great video on OpenWrt. Thank you so much for your appreciating my work. Glad you liked my NFTables video. My Respect for mentioning and recommending the video to your audience. It means a lot. Wish you all the Success! Cheers :)
Hey Vineet, great to hear from you! I liked the calm and thorough style of the video - it was a real light in the nonsense-infomercial jungle ;-) I do wish you success as well!
Thank you so much for finding videos on nftables and sharing! I had looked around a number of years ago, and didn’t find any except for a few talks from the primary author.
Thanks Marc for the great details about the upcoming version. I would definitely would like to see a video about PXE boot server in OpenWRT. I'm looking for a long time for such a solution and there really not a lot of video about the topic, at least no clear and straight forward solution.
Hi - many thanks for the feedback - I'll add it to the list - I wouldn't have expected so many being inteerested in PXE really ;-) Do you have a specific use case / device you would want to net boot ?
@@OneMarcFifty are these requests to have openWRT serve the network boot solution? Which storage will/can the images be served from (USB would suit me but I guess NAS sourced could be awesome)? My focus would be booting a RasPi 3B, using the stub /boot uSD image that they offer on their site (which doesn’t necessitate the irreversible OTP flash). Then ultimately being able to remotely switch which image my Pi will run, before reboot :) Thanks for your great vids!
@@OneMarcFifty In fact I often install new machines (with windows or Linux) or have to troubleshoot them with specific bootable ISO images. Using USB drives are not that great and having a PXE boot with a menu to choose which ISO to boot from would be really great. I saw a video on TH-cam to have PXE boot through TFTP on pfsense but I don't use pfsense and I really don't know how to do it on OpenWRT. If you would have any solution that would be great!
Thank you Marc for sharing the latest on OpenWRT and LuCI, I hope I can dedicate a good time to finally understanding the new version/successor of IPtables, and NFtables, I hope it is easier to understand as well, I will check the videos you recommended in the title section as well. Thank you and until the next one.
Hey Jair, many thanks for the feedback (and for the many re-tweets ;-) )Good news is that it does not affect users too much as long as you stick with the GUI. Different story if you run iptables "by hand" obviously ;-)
Thank you to offer to us a nice channel about OpenWrt. Happy user of it I was struggling to understand VPN or advanced topics. But since you covert it, my network infrastructure is almost perfect. Thank you and please continue to do so.
Hi Marc, I really respect you promoting other people's channels when they've already made videos on subjects you could also have. Keep up the good work!
What a coincidence! Yesterday I was thinking "hey, I haven't keep up with my router in a while; I wonder what new versions of OpenWRT are available." So this video is definitely useful, though I think I rather wait for the final release. Great job!
Marc, when you make the update OpenWrt video, then please don't forget us who have old routers with small 4MB flash and use the Extroot environment. Thanks for the hard work you put in to make these great videos, I really enjoy watching them!
@@OneMarcFifty Great! I am sure it will be most useful for us with a little older hardware. Even if it is an old router it needs the security updates that is fixed in later releases.
Nice overview, and thank you for the Vineet links. nf_tables looks a lot more powerful than iptables, I hunted around for info o these links are very timely. As the famous actor turned mayor said, I'll be back!
Hello how are you? I feel very happy to have a great professional like you interested in the openwrt project. And even happier that you share your knowledge with us. Thank you very much.
TFTP/PXE/iPXE videos would be great... also a optional inclusion of a iSCSI server module... also a AOE server module... and particularly a NBD server... to permit access to USB attached storage devices... would be a cherry in top of the cake... please continue this great work... OpenWRT by now is one of my investigation projects... it just fall me off in bridging a Cable to Wifi in fome old versin ?17.x??... but maybe this is possible in the new versions...
Hey Alexander, there is much more to come. I have two more videos on OpenWrt in the pipe that are already scheduled plus many many more in the planning !
I've been running RC6 on my RT3200 for a couple weeks and it's quite solid. There were some changes in behavior from RC1, but they made things more predictable. I'm waiting for the final release before I update a family member's RT3200, on which I've got a Feb snapshot running, with some stuff like syncthing and cake, so that should prove fun.
Hi, I can confirm that observation! Since I've upgraded mine from 21 snapshot to 22 RC5 it seems to be way more stable. Curious to hear from you how things are going with SQM ;-)
Followed the OpenWRT project a long time ago (custom firmwares is always nice!) but never actually had a router that was supported... Buy mostly budget routers that suits my need. So around 100 USD ones. Always checking though if the router is supported (when I get tired of it afterwards, and sometimes it is mentioned but nobody is actually supporting it)... No I have 3 working routers (just bought another one) that just for fun I checked (I did check a couple of years ago with this router and it was not supported, but there was a possibility because it had 8 MB flash and 64 MB RAM and I think 4 MB flash, 32 MB RAM was bare minimum then)... anyway... checked this old router again and now it's fully supported! And it will get OpenWRT... I don't know what I will do with it... it will not be my main router, but I guess it will serve some purpose... Think I will couple it with my old 2TB USB drive create a NAS and maybe WiFI extender... and some server utils... maybe it can run some home automation? anyway finally I try OpenWRT! :-)
Hi Alexander, I am very happy to hear that your device is now supported by OpenWrt. the challenge is that when you buy a new device, you may or may not know whether it will ever be supported or not. This is because vendors usually don't tell you what hardware they use inside and sometimes also just switch to different hardware vendors (i.e. there might be routers of the same model and brand using different hardware) where as OpenWrt of course can only support those which are supported by Linux... Many thanks for your feedback!
@@OneMarcFifty Yes as I never had a device capable/supported I never actually bought one that I knew was supported also (2015-2017 ones was pretty feature packed anyway). But I always wanted to extend the router life somehow and I knew OpenWRT would add incredible features for "free" but again buying budget routers back then (and now actually) I pretty much knew someone would not take their time to "hack" and squeeze OpenWRT on them, and if someone does it would probably not support the original functions of the router. But now it seems ever budget routers get people working on them and they get OpenWRT support which is just awesome! a low power device with network capabilities that can do so much stuff is just awesome. My oldest router (2015 one sort of) was sadly bricked (yes I know and will unbrick it with JTAG or something else) probably a mismatched original firmware and did not wanted to be flashed with OEM/webinterface and later not via TFTP... but a later router was no problems, and I really really like OpenWRT! So much possibilities! and low power... I think this project would move forward at an awesome speed if someone (yes impossible I know) did a Windows/OSX/Linux frontend, with an database backend to actually probe your router and download what is necessary give the proper up to date instructions for the router (and maybe the firmware that is residing on the router). That would be such a boost! Anyway! Love OpenWRT!
This is beyond my knowledge of Linux and OpenWRT. I started using OpenWRT when I was handed a sh!t sandwich. Basically a 4G mobile router that our money guy decided to buy to impress the boss. The router has no Ethernet interface, but I was supposed to make that the internet access for our small, isolated office. The Master Radio on the TPlink Archer router is 5Ghz in access point mode and other radio is the 2.4GHz in client. I tried having the 4G router connect to the Archer on the 2.4Ghz radio and let any wireless connections happen on the 5GHz radio. What I noticed is when the anyone connected via the 5Ghz radio we'd lose internet to any of the computers hooked to the router Ethernet ports. In the end, I went with yet another wireless AP plugged into the TPLink router for the wireless clients to use. The 4G puck is still connected wirelessly to the TPLink router on 2.4Ghz. This works without any interruption to wireless or wired nodes. I still think there is most likely a way to make this all work with just the TPlink router, but the solution alludes me...mainly because of limited knowledge, I assume.
Thanks for the update, it would be great to make a video about full cone nat using nftables, because i can't find any option in Openwrt user interface. I only found NATMap but i am not sure if it works with the new nftables or not, and i still don't know how to use it.
I've been setring up my home and "lab" networks following your videos, verry usefull content. If you can do a video on network multi-boot via PXE, it would be great. Thanks and kerp up the great work !
Hi Marc - thanks for update about 22.03. I'll be really happy to see video about nftables and PXE. But another question - why do You use OpenWRT on x86? Have You tried OPNsense or pfsense instead maybe? It seems to be very interesting alternative for firewall running on x86.
Hi Michał, basically I am using OpenWrt because I know OpenWrt. I think that's true for most people using something or not - you tend to use what you know ;-) But I had given pfSense (or I'd rather go with OPNSense actually) more than one thought. I would say pfSense/OPNSense are great solutions and presumably much better than OpenWrt in some areas (Intrusion detection...). The decisive argument for OpenWrt was that my main router has 5 GHz Wifi - and that's something where OpenWrt is definitely better. For the video I am just using an x86 VM because I could show things easily without having to flash one of my devices.
Many thanks.. I love your videos, very well explained and right to the point. You're very articulated even though English isn't your first language. I really appreciate a video to update openwrt. I'm not a person that look for new updates just because, I'm worried for vulnerabilities and attacks in a not updated software. I'm looked in forums about how to update openwrt, but in general people are not very friendly (a little snob) and they quickly jump to conclusions, so that is very discouraging
Yes please, do a video about upgrading openwrt. I'm running x86 19.07 as my main routing device (its ip address is in dmz of my isp modem, unfortunatelly it is not possible to do it in brige mode), and I have a dumb AP connected to it (Archer C6 on stock firmware - waiting for it to get official openwrt support). Also the openwrt device is running AdguardHome as system service (I suppose...adguard process is shown in Status->Processes), and for it to work I've got 2 custom firewall rules forwarding dns queries to AdguardHome. And after watching the above video I've got a bit worried if I'll be able to achive the same state on openwrt 22.xx :/
Hi, many thanks for your feedback. Yes, the next video will be about upgrading. However - your use case (and mine btw) - if you have port forwards with custom rules and iptables then you might need to adjust them (I will need to do that as well - will probably make a video anyhow ;-) )
This is awesome. Thank you very much for the videos. I would love to know more about Network Boot and also serving files from an open wrt router over USB.
Hey, thanks for the feedack - it's noted. W/r to sharing files - I made a video about samba on OpenWrt 2 years ago - maybe this helps ? th-cam.com/video/vTxfgstBIlE/w-d-xo.html Samba does need a lot of RAM though...
It would be great to have some example of how to configure multiple web-server running on a docker machine into your local LAN, but accessing throw Internet with a custom domain (To simplify this example, you could use Nginx containers as web servers and duckDNS for custom domains)
3:56.. If you can then why not. My suggestion: --> Installing windows via PXE. --> Booting windows via PXE. The iSCSI protocol will probably come in handy.
Pls do a complete guide on the setup of netbootxyz using Docker as well as natively (without docker) in two scenarios where it's run on the root OpenWRT device (same as DHCP server) as well on another device on the network. I've recently had the challenge of getting netbootxyz working but only with tftp service of Docker running via `host` mode; even though the Docker TCP bridge mode works for the TCP I couldn't get it working using the same rules for UDP. Many thanks for all your efforts and inspirational videos!
@@OneMarcFifty NP Marc - suggestions are easy & you can easily grow to ignore my numerous demands 😀- it's the quality and hard work going into your content that counts. I used linuxserver/netbootxyz & their other images are usually good too. It would be amazing if eventually in one of your later related series or parts (on netbootxyz) you'll actually get to a final WinPE setup / use as well as other distros that are typically easier. I'll try to join the Discord to discuss this further & providing any input I can. Thank you once again for all your caring strides. 🥳
Good summary of what changed with latest OpenWrt! Speaking of doing firmware upgrades, did you already try/use the attended-sysupgrade package/system? It's very good if you have installed packages and you don't want to reinstall them again after doing a firmware upgrade, as it will ask the download server to send a firmware image with all the packages you have currently installed in your device. It's maintained by one of the core developers and it's an official thing. It's very convenient.
Hi Marco, many thanks. Guess what the next video will be about ? yeaaah - ASU / AUC / attended Sysupgrade ;-) I am even planning on doing another OpenWrt upgrade video and maybe use the old firmware builder for unattended/automated upgrades ;-)
Hi, thank you for changelog information, specially - nftables. I was using OpenWrt many years, with Unbound server for recursive DNS searching... and lots other packages:) Aunfortunately had to switch to Mikrotik RouterOS
Hey Marc, Another good video, good job my friend. So I know this is probably a not so smart request but I use OpenWRT 22.03.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 (CM4) with a seeed studio mini router board / companion board. It would be nice to see a video specifically geared towrds that and the 2 physical Nics WAN & LAN and how to create vlans for this configuration. Thanks Marc
Hi Michael, one of the next videos will use an old Raspberry Pi 4B for that - basically showing the config with a managed switch for devices that do not have switches (or not even multiple Ethernet ports at all)
My current OpenWRT device is an old Mikrotik RB493G, which only has 19.07.10 available for it, and I've run into an issue with my planned network updates. Was going to be running the latest OpenWRT x86 in a ProxMox VM, passing through the USB port for a new Sierra Wireless EM9191 5G Cellular modem, as my Internet uplink (it should be at least 3x faster than my AT&T UVerse) - but the modem doesn't show up in the USB devices (on ProxMox, Ubuntu, or Windows 10). So, I'm a bit stuck, until the modem is usable - or I could try to find the Router you're using (it looks like it's been replaced by a newer model on Amazon).
Hi David - the modem might not show up in lsusb and the like until you load a protocol stack. I've had a lot of headache with 4G modems. Maybe this article helps techship.com/faq/how-to-use-sierra-wireless-mc-em74-and-em75-series-cellular-modules-in-linux-with-the-mbim-interface/ - it's about older modems but shows how to use the drivers in order to have the device visible. One of the next videos will actually be something quite similar - I am using a Mikrotik RBM33G (with miniPCIE) and a Quectel 25 to build an LTE router. But I will do this with the Rooter fork of OpenWrt. At home I am using a PCEngines APU4D4 board - but they have gotten very expensive. Is the EM9191 a miniPCIE version or does it come as a USB stick really ?
@@OneMarcFifty - I bought the EM9191 M.2 card, along with a USB 3.0 adapter enclosure, in a kit from Wireless Haven. It turns out that the adapter needed to have two jumpers installed, for the the EM9191 to operate in USB mode. The modem now shows up in lsusb and usb-devices on my main Kubuntu 22.04 PC. Still need to figure out how to "connect" to it, and use it as an Internet uplink.
After installing the latest Modem Manager and qcserial utilities (had to compile/install qcserial) on my Kubuntu 22.04 PC, I was able to access the EM9191 modem using the Network Manager. Turning off the Ethernet port, and turning on the EM9191, running SpeedTest yielded numbers that are 2x - 3x the speed of my AT&T UVerse. Trying to access the EM9191 from the command line on my server, running Proxmox VE, I found that the Debian repositories don't have the latest utilities / drivers. They're available in the Backports repository, but installing fails due to dependencies. I wonder whether the OpenWRT x86-64 installation would have the latest utilities / drivers, and be able to access the EM9191, if its USB port was passed-through in Proxmox?
hi, I wanted to configure etherwake-nfqueue on a router with openwrt 23, but I was faced with the fact that I absolutely don’t understand how to add nftables rules. It’s also not clear how to enable a firewall for your home network.
Great video again Marc! Thanks! I have specific problem and request that i think fits in the "Do you want me to make a video about nftables?" question. What about DLNA across VLANs? It seems to me multicast trafic needs to be routed and all working solutions i saw use iptables to bump the TTL counter as multcast uses TTL=1. It would be great if you could make a video about nftable with such concrete example. :) Thanks.
Oh - great idea! I had nearly discarded the idea of mdns/airplay/airprint/dlna but you are right - Doing it with nftables might be a game changer. Thanks for the feedback!
Hi I found your videos by chance and love the way you explain. quick question have you used tailscale with openwrt and what do you think of it. Can you pls do a video of it and how to use it within your local network. thank you
Hi, quick question: is it possible to do bonding/LACP if the router only has one eth interface? I have a switch and router upstream, want to increase total bandwidth available to the OpenWrt router (as a dumb access point)
Hi Marc, great videos. I tried following your previous guide for OpenWRT / Luci / Wireguard. It didn't work for me. Would you consider doing an updated guide with OpenWrt 22.03.2 latest stable release?
I'm thinking about putting this onto an ER-X because I really don't like the Ubiquiti UI. I also don't like how the ER-X by default doesn't enable hwnat and I wasn't able to hit the full gigabit speed of my fiber without it. It seems very strange to me that this wouldn't be enabled. I'm curious if openwrt will give me the full gigabit speeds or if I can enable hwnat using openwrt.
Hi Marc, thanks for this great explanation. My openwrt is on version 22 but still uses a switch. Not on 22.03 yet. Since is my main router that substitute the ISP router, i fear that during one update it will be moved to DSA. Is there a simple way to move the switch configuration to DSA without manually configure ut again?
QUESTION: I've setup my 2.4 mesh and in your other video states that I can set up another mesh for 5g. But when I do this the wifi on both of my tp-link c7's are disabled. Help!!! Please.
Btw if you are doing a video about pxe booting, check out "ipxe" project, it is a very powerful opensource PXE ROM (that can be flashed in the network card's ROM or chainloaded by an existing network boot firmware or flashed to a USB drive and so on)
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I've used many of these aftermarket firmwares and i'm super impressed by the time and effort they've all put into creating great products that people can use without cost that also enables them to extend a router's life nearly indefinitely. It's become a hobby for me to play with the various firmware on every router i buy. I have dozens of consumer wifi routers, and they've provided hours of entertainment.
Haha - yes, I am glad you see the time spent as entertainment. It's true though - if you go the open firmware path then you need to bring time ;-)
I've been using OpenWRT for what must be a decade, now. I've learned many of its ins and outs and I can use it with a reasonable degree of competence, but I have a very limited knowledge of Linux in general and Linux networking in particular, so the discussion about IPtables vs NF Tables and DSA vs swconfig tend to make my eyes glaze over.
I've spent a fair bit of time trying to educate myself on these topics but they require more time and energy than I can commit to so I'm happy to just use OpenWRT as a slightly-above-average normie.
That said I always enjoy your OpenWRT videos.
Hi Helman, that's a really great comment and I must admit that this is kind of the flip side of the OpenWrt medal - it requires time and effort.... I fully understand what you mean. Now - the good news (at least with nftables) is that the user interface has not changed a bit. With DSA that was different ;-)
Thanks for the update Marc. I generally wait for the stable release before upgrading but knowing what changes are coming and where I need to update my knowledge in advance is a huge help. Thank you for taking the time to make such great videos explaining this - they’re great to watch and a huge help :-)
Hi Ray, this is a good decision - I generally advise people to wait for the release version. Many thanks for the feedback ;-)
So glad I found you!
Got a used Linksys Smart EA6350 because my TP-Link only had was getting old in the teeth for OpenWrt.
Now I know where to go for help (OpenWrt forums are snarky).
I flashed, Jtag error.
I flashed the latest Linksys firmware: Jtag error and it soft bricked.
So I reset it in every way (power on, power off) and let it sit an hour while I found the first firmware for the router.
It flashed fine and then I flashed OpenWrt 22. Sucess!
Now I'm trying to get the USB to work, but now I know to just SSH in and copy paste the packages instead of using the Luci GUI.
Then, I need to get the Pihole integrated.
But at least I am not trying to reinvent my OpenWrt alone.
It has been fine for years and I was scared to try.
Thanks for keeping it simple!
Amazing feedback - thank you very much for sharing your experience.
Hey Marc! Great video on OpenWrt. Thank you so much for your appreciating my work. Glad you liked my NFTables video. My Respect for mentioning and recommending the video to your audience. It means a lot. Wish you all the Success! Cheers :)
Hey Vineet, great to hear from you! I liked the calm and thorough style of the video - it was a real light in the nonsense-infomercial jungle ;-) I do wish you success as well!
really nice video, you have sold me to the idea of flashing OpenWRT to a spare ISP router I have sitting here 🤞
Your calmness and politeness reminds me of the explaining computers guy. And that's a good thing!
Thank you very much for the feedback ;-)
Thank you so much for finding videos on nftables and sharing! I had looked around a number of years ago, and didn’t find any except for a few talks from the primary author.
By “primary author”, I mean the main person who created the nftables framework in the kernel, and wrote the commands.
Thanks for your feedback. Yes - I really liked the nftables video.
Thanks Marc for the great details about the upcoming version.
I would definitely would like to see a video about PXE boot server in OpenWRT.
I'm looking for a long time for such a solution and there really not a lot of video about the topic, at least no clear and straight forward solution.
Hi - many thanks for the feedback - I'll add it to the list - I wouldn't have expected so many being inteerested in PXE really ;-) Do you have a specific use case / device you would want to net boot ?
@@OneMarcFifty are these requests to have openWRT serve the network boot solution?
Which storage will/can the images be served from (USB would suit me but I guess NAS sourced could be awesome)?
My focus would be booting a RasPi 3B, using the stub /boot uSD image that they offer on their site (which doesn’t necessitate the irreversible OTP flash). Then ultimately being able to remotely switch which image my Pi will run, before reboot :)
Thanks for your great vids!
@@OneMarcFifty In fact I often install new machines (with windows or Linux) or have to troubleshoot them with specific bootable ISO images. Using USB drives are not that great and having a PXE boot with a menu to choose which ISO to boot from would be really great.
I saw a video on TH-cam to have PXE boot through TFTP on pfsense but I don't use pfsense and I really don't know how to do it on OpenWRT. If you would have any solution that would be great!
Thank you Marc for sharing the latest on OpenWRT and LuCI, I hope I can dedicate a good time to finally understanding the new version/successor of IPtables, and NFtables, I hope it is easier to understand as well, I will check the videos you recommended in the title section as well. Thank you and until the next one.
Hey Jair, many thanks for the feedback (and for the many re-tweets ;-) )Good news is that it does not affect users too much as long as you stick with the GUI. Different story if you run iptables "by hand" obviously ;-)
Thank you to offer to us a nice channel about OpenWrt. Happy user of it I was struggling to understand VPN or advanced topics. But since you covert it, my network infrastructure is almost perfect. Thank you and please continue to do so.
Hi Sebastien - many thanks for the feedback- glad you got everything working as desired!
Great video Marc! Thank you! Yes a PXE boot video would be so helpful :)
Hi, that makes two already ;-) It's noted ! Many thanks for the feedback!
Sehr interessant. Ich überlege von diversen Fritzboxnetzwerken auf WRT Routern zuwechseln.
Hi Michael, vielen Dank fürs Feedback. Schau halt vorher, ob Deine Geräte unterstützt werden.
Moving from a Archer C7 with OpenWRT 19 to a Futro S920 x86_64 with OpenWRT 22 soon. This helped a lot.
Hi Marc,
I really respect you promoting other people's channels when they've already made videos on subjects you could also have. Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much
This is basically video deduplication! Awesome to see!
Marc... of course we want a video on network booting!!! ;-)
what were you thinking man... it should be done ASAP ;-)
,-)))
Haha ;-) I'll see what I can do ;-)
Yesss please! A video about network boot. Thanks in advance.
Hi - it's noted ;-)
Hello!
It would be great to see a nftables video.
Thank you for your work on this Channel! 🙂
Thank you very much ;-) I've taken note of your suggestion
What a coincidence! Yesterday I was thinking "hey, I haven't keep up with my router in a while; I wonder what new versions of OpenWRT are available." So this video is definitely useful, though I think I rather wait for the final release. Great job!
Hey, I'd say perfect timing ;-) And yes - please do wait for the release. Release candidates are still moving targets really.
You explained it really well. Great job Marc ! Also I would love to see a video about PXE booting as it seems like a useful feature.
Hi Vibhu, many thanks for the feedback - looks like PXE seems to be of great interest ;-)
Love your Openwrt vids…. Thank you
Many thanks Tony!
Marc, you’re the man
Thank you so much ;-)
Marc... of course we want a video on nftables in openwrt!!! ;-)
what were you thinking man... is it not ready yet ;-)
,-)))
you again ;-)
For the Hostnames I have to install the newer version :) Thanks!
Hi Robert, let me know how it goes - I have it running for a while now with no issues.
Marc, when you make the update OpenWrt video, then please don't forget us who have old routers with small 4MB flash and use the Extroot environment. Thanks for the hard work you put in to make these great videos, I really enjoy watching them!
Thanks a lot! Unfortunately the video is already produced and will not cover extroot - but I might do a separate episode on extroot altogether
@@OneMarcFifty Great! I am sure it will be most useful for us with a little older hardware. Even if it is an old router it needs the security updates that is fixed in later releases.
Nice overview, and thank you for the Vineet links. nf_tables looks a lot more powerful than iptables, I hunted around for info o these links are very timely. As the famous actor turned mayor said, I'll be back!
Governor! Now get in the choppa!!
Hasta la Vista baby ;-)
YES!!! I would like to see a video on OpenWRT PXE Network boot. Please...
Hi, thanks for the feedback ! PXE seems to be really popular - it's noted ;-)
Thanks!
+ waiting for nftable overview
Hi, many thanks for the feedback - it's noted ;-)
Interested in TFTP/PXE booting
Hi John, it's noted - many thanks !
Me too, +1!
Interested, too! 👍🏻
Me too!
+1
I've been running OpenWRT on Unifi hardware. Works great and more stable. Go figure.
Hi Jeff, many thanks for sharing your experience.
Thanks for the video Marc. There really isnt much info out there on the new openwrt version
Hi, thank you very much - glad you could use it.
Thanks for keeping us up to date on what's new.
You're welcome - and many thanks for watching and for your feedback!
Hello how are you?
I feel very happy to have a great professional like you interested in the openwrt project.
And even happier that you share your knowledge with us.
Thank you very much.
Hi, thank you very much!
iptables-translate, iptables-save and iptables-restore-translate can be helpful for switching too ;)
Hi, thanks for this comment. Yes - you are right. I used iptables-translate to transfer my custom rules to nftables. Very helpful indeed!
TFTP/PXE/iPXE videos would be great...
also a optional inclusion of a iSCSI server module...
also a AOE server module... and particularly a NBD server...
to permit access to USB attached storage devices... would be a cherry in top of the cake...
please continue this great work...
OpenWRT by now is one of my investigation projects...
it just fall me off in bridging a Cable to Wifi in fome old versin ?17.x??...
but maybe this is possible in the new versions...
Great suggestions, thank you very much! I'll have a closer look.
Thanks for returning back with OpenWrt video.
Hey Alexander, there is much more to come. I have two more videos on OpenWrt in the pipe that are already scheduled plus many many more in the planning !
Please make a video about nftables. Your content is so great 👍🏻
Thank you very much ;-)
Thanks for the reasearch you have done.
Thank you very much ;-)
I've been running RC6 on my RT3200 for a couple weeks and it's quite solid. There were some changes in behavior from RC1, but they made things more predictable. I'm waiting for the final release before I update a family member's RT3200, on which I've got a Feb snapshot running, with some stuff like syncthing and cake, so that should prove fun.
Hi, I can confirm that observation! Since I've upgraded mine from 21 snapshot to 22 RC5 it seems to be way more stable. Curious to hear from you how things are going with SQM ;-)
Followed the OpenWRT project a long time ago (custom firmwares is always nice!) but never actually had a router that was supported... Buy mostly budget routers that suits my need. So around 100 USD ones. Always checking though if the router is supported (when I get tired of it afterwards, and sometimes it is mentioned but nobody is actually supporting it)... No I have 3 working routers (just bought another one) that just for fun I checked (I did check a couple of years ago with this router and it was not supported, but there was a possibility because it had 8 MB flash and 64 MB RAM and I think 4 MB flash, 32 MB RAM was bare minimum then)... anyway... checked this old router again and now it's fully supported!
And it will get OpenWRT... I don't know what I will do with it... it will not be my main router, but I guess it will serve some purpose... Think I will couple it with my old 2TB USB drive create a NAS and maybe WiFI extender... and some server utils... maybe it can run some home automation? anyway finally I try OpenWRT! :-)
Hi Alexander, I am very happy to hear that your device is now supported by OpenWrt. the challenge is that when you buy a new device, you may or may not know whether it will ever be supported or not. This is because vendors usually don't tell you what hardware they use inside and sometimes also just switch to different hardware vendors (i.e. there might be routers of the same model and brand using different hardware) where as OpenWrt of course can only support those which are supported by Linux... Many thanks for your feedback!
@@OneMarcFifty Yes as I never had a device capable/supported I never actually bought one that I knew was supported also (2015-2017 ones was pretty feature packed anyway). But I always wanted to extend the router life somehow and I knew OpenWRT would add incredible features for "free" but again buying budget routers back then (and now actually) I pretty much knew someone would not take their time to "hack" and squeeze OpenWRT on them, and if someone does it would probably not support the original functions of the router. But now it seems ever budget routers get people working on them and they get OpenWRT support which is just awesome! a low power device with network capabilities that can do so much stuff is just awesome.
My oldest router (2015 one sort of) was sadly bricked (yes I know and will unbrick it with JTAG or something else) probably a mismatched original firmware and did not wanted to be flashed with OEM/webinterface and later not via TFTP... but a later router was no problems, and I really really like OpenWRT!
So much possibilities! and low power...
I think this project would move forward at an awesome speed if someone (yes impossible I know) did a Windows/OSX/Linux frontend, with an database backend to actually probe your router and download what is necessary give the proper up to date instructions for the router (and maybe the firmware that is residing on the router). That would be such a boost!
Anyway! Love OpenWRT!
This is beyond my knowledge of Linux and OpenWRT. I started using OpenWRT when I was handed a sh!t sandwich. Basically a 4G mobile router that our money guy decided to buy to impress the boss. The router has no Ethernet interface, but I was supposed to make that the internet access for our small, isolated office. The Master Radio on the TPlink Archer router is 5Ghz in access point mode and other radio is the 2.4GHz in client. I tried having the 4G router connect to the Archer on the 2.4Ghz radio and let any wireless connections happen on the 5GHz radio. What I noticed is when the anyone connected via the 5Ghz radio we'd lose internet to any of the computers hooked to the router Ethernet ports. In the end, I went with yet another wireless AP plugged into the TPLink router for the wireless clients to use. The 4G puck is still connected wirelessly to the TPLink router on 2.4Ghz. This works without any interruption to wireless or wired nodes. I still think there is most likely a way to make this all work with just the TPlink router, but the solution alludes me...mainly because of limited knowledge, I assume.
Awesome video. I was waiting for it, because I'm new to OpenWrt and this version is the only that currently supports my FriendlyElec R4S
Hi Enzo, many thanks for the feedback !
Thanks for the update, it would be great to make a video about full cone nat using nftables, because i can't find any option in Openwrt user interface. I only found NATMap but i am not sure if it works with the new nftables or not, and i still don't know how to use it.
You can do that under Network-Firewall-Port Forwards. For Full Cone NAT you would just need to add a rule for each source zone.
Thank you sir, You do an awesome job. I appreciate you.
Thank you very much
I've been setring up my home and "lab" networks following your videos, verry usefull content. If you can do a video on network multi-boot via PXE, it would be great. Thanks and kerp up the great work !
Hi Stefan, looks like there does seem to be interest for PXE ;-) Many thanks for the friendly comment!
I'm really really curious about wifi 6e mesh options that could start to become available in the openwrt universe! Also, seriously, incredible work!
Hi Pavan, thanks a lot! Yes - exploiting the new 6 GHz band will be a very interesting opportunity!
Great video and thanks for all the information on this and all your videos.
Thank you very much ;-)
Hi Marc - thanks for update about 22.03. I'll be really happy to see video about nftables and PXE. But another question - why do You use OpenWRT on x86? Have You tried OPNsense or pfsense instead maybe? It seems to be very interesting alternative for firewall running on x86.
Hi Michał, basically I am using OpenWrt because I know OpenWrt. I think that's true for most people using something or not - you tend to use what you know ;-) But I had given pfSense (or I'd rather go with OPNSense actually) more than one thought. I would say pfSense/OPNSense are great solutions and presumably much better than OpenWrt in some areas (Intrusion detection...). The decisive argument for OpenWrt was that my main router has 5 GHz Wifi - and that's something where OpenWrt is definitely better. For the video I am just using an x86 VM because I could show things easily without having to flash one of my devices.
A pxe video hell yeah looking for it 👍thx for all your great work
Hey Karim, thank you very much - it's noted ;-)
will always give a comment if that is what is needed. good job very gratefull for the videos keep up the good work
Thank you very much ;-)
Awesome explaination Marc! Goodjob
Thank you very much !
Yes marc please, made a video talking about netboot.
Hey, many thanks for the feedback - it's noted - seems to be more popular then I though ;-)
Much appreciated, thank you! :))
Hey Marc ;-) thank you!
Many thanks.. I love your videos, very well explained and right to the point. You're very articulated even though English isn't your first language.
I really appreciate a video to update openwrt. I'm not a person that look for new updates just because, I'm worried for vulnerabilities and attacks in a not updated software. I'm looked in forums about how to update openwrt, but in general people are not very friendly (a little snob) and they quickly jump to conclusions, so that is very discouraging
Hi David - many thanks for the feedback - also - the next video will be about upgrading ;-)
You have a great style for teaching. Are you a teacher professionally? Good work and thank you for your videos!
Hi Stefan, many thanks. No, I am not a teacher - just some guy who shares his learnings ;-)
Would love to see an updated vide of how to install on Belkin RT 3200 !
Hi Vincent, this is difficult to make as I have already flashed mine ;-)
Yes please, do a video about upgrading openwrt. I'm running x86 19.07 as my main routing device (its ip address is in dmz of my isp modem, unfortunatelly it is not possible to do it in brige mode), and I have a dumb AP connected to it (Archer C6 on stock firmware - waiting for it to get official openwrt support). Also the openwrt device is running AdguardHome as system service (I suppose...adguard process is shown in Status->Processes), and for it to work I've got 2 custom firewall rules forwarding dns queries to AdguardHome. And after watching the above video I've got a bit worried if I'll be able to achive the same state on openwrt 22.xx :/
Hi, many thanks for your feedback. Yes, the next video will be about upgrading. However - your use case (and mine btw) - if you have port forwards with custom rules and iptables then you might need to adjust them (I will need to do that as well - will probably make a video anyhow ;-) )
This is awesome. Thank you very much for the videos. I would love to know more about Network Boot and also serving files from an open wrt router over USB.
Hey, thanks for the feedack - it's noted. W/r to sharing files - I made a video about samba on OpenWrt 2 years ago - maybe this helps ? th-cam.com/video/vTxfgstBIlE/w-d-xo.html Samba does need a lot of RAM though...
Excellent. Thank you for this video uploader. ❤🎉
It would be great to have some example of how to configure multiple web-server running on a docker machine into your local LAN, but accessing throw Internet with a custom domain (To simplify this example, you could use Nginx containers as web servers and duckDNS for custom domains)
Nice Idea, thank you for sharing.
it took me some hours to learn nftable in my first openwrt trial run
Did you get everything to work as expected?
@@OneMarcFifty yes, it running almost a month now
Yes, I'd like a video about network booting.
Hi Patrick - many thanks - I'll add to the list ;-)
my tp link c7 v2 needed this and staple now to load away and reconfigure from scratch
Awesome - many thanks for the feedback!
Great Info Marc. I always look forward to your videos.
Hi, many thanks !
Thank you and straight to the point love it
I am glad that you liked the video - Thank you very much!
3:56..
If you can then why not.
My suggestion:
--> Installing windows via PXE.
--> Booting windows via PXE.
The iSCSI protocol will probably come in handy.
Hi, I’ll have a look into those - many thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for your work!
Many thanks Eugene!
Great video Marc! And great easy to understand explanations as usual!
Thank you
Thank you very much;-)
by far you are the best TH-camr on OpenWRT subject
Hi Antonio, thank you very much - that's very kind of you !
It's always excited to watch your videos.good job and thanks for your explain!
Hi Jack, thank you very much ;-)
Pls do a complete guide on the setup of netbootxyz using Docker as well as natively (without docker) in two scenarios where it's run on the root OpenWRT device (same as DHCP server) as well on another device on the network. I've recently had the challenge of getting netbootxyz working but only with tftp service of Docker running via `host` mode; even though the Docker TCP bridge mode works for the TCP I couldn't get it working using the same rules for UDP. Many thanks for all your efforts and inspirational videos!
Hi Mehdi. Great suggestion, many thanks. Which Dockerfile did you use?
@@OneMarcFifty NP Marc - suggestions are easy & you can easily grow to ignore my numerous demands 😀- it's the quality and hard work going into your content that counts. I used linuxserver/netbootxyz & their other images are usually good too. It would be amazing if eventually in one of your later related series or parts (on netbootxyz) you'll actually get to a final WinPE setup / use as well as other distros that are typically easier. I'll try to join the Discord to discuss this further & providing any input I can. Thank you once again for all your caring strides. 🥳
Excellent intro, thanks
Thank you very much ;-)
Great update.
Tks.
Many thanks Leonardo!
Good summary of what changed with latest OpenWrt! Speaking of doing firmware upgrades, did you already try/use the attended-sysupgrade package/system? It's very good if you have installed packages and you don't want to reinstall them again after doing a firmware upgrade, as it will ask the download server to send a firmware image with all the packages you have currently installed in your device. It's maintained by one of the core developers and it's an official thing. It's very convenient.
Hi Marco, many thanks. Guess what the next video will be about ? yeaaah - ASU / AUC / attended Sysupgrade ;-) I am even planning on doing another OpenWrt upgrade video and maybe use the old firmware builder for unattended/automated upgrades ;-)
Thanks.. firewall4 vidéo would be great 😊
Hey Bayram - it’s noted!
@@OneMarcFifty thanks again for the video it was helpful for me :) and for your reply ^^
Great works! Thnx!
Many thanks Andrey!
Very useful video. Thank you
Thank you very much ;-)
Hi, thank you for changelog information, specially - nftables. I was using OpenWrt many years, with Unbound server for recursive DNS searching... and lots other packages:) Aunfortunately had to switch to Mikrotik RouterOS
Hi Marek. Sorry that you have to use something that you don't like ;-( I do agree - the learning experience with OpenWrt is tremendous!
Hey Marc, Another good video, good job my friend. So I know this is probably a not so smart request but I use OpenWRT 22.03.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 (CM4) with a seeed studio mini router board / companion board. It would be nice to see a video specifically geared towrds that and the 2 physical Nics WAN & LAN and how to create vlans for this configuration. Thanks Marc
Hi Michael, one of the next videos will use an old Raspberry Pi 4B for that - basically showing the config with a managed switch for devices that do not have switches (or not even multiple Ethernet ports at all)
@@OneMarcFifty Thank you sir.
raspberry pi can also do network boot, tested with a pi tftp server, works !
Many thanks for the feedback - we might go for a "universal" approach, i.e. boot Win, Linux, Pi, other devices...
My current OpenWRT device is an old Mikrotik RB493G, which only has 19.07.10 available for it, and I've run into an issue with my planned network updates. Was going to be running the latest OpenWRT x86 in a ProxMox VM, passing through the USB port for a new Sierra Wireless EM9191 5G Cellular modem, as my Internet uplink (it should be at least 3x faster than my AT&T UVerse) - but the modem doesn't show up in the USB devices (on ProxMox, Ubuntu, or Windows 10). So, I'm a bit stuck, until the modem is usable - or I could try to find the Router you're using (it looks like it's been replaced by a newer model on Amazon).
Hi David - the modem might not show up in lsusb and the like until you load a protocol stack. I've had a lot of headache with 4G modems. Maybe this article helps techship.com/faq/how-to-use-sierra-wireless-mc-em74-and-em75-series-cellular-modules-in-linux-with-the-mbim-interface/ - it's about older modems but shows how to use the drivers in order to have the device visible. One of the next videos will actually be something quite similar - I am using a Mikrotik RBM33G (with miniPCIE) and a Quectel 25 to build an LTE router. But I will do this with the Rooter fork of OpenWrt. At home I am using a PCEngines APU4D4 board - but they have gotten very expensive. Is the EM9191 a miniPCIE version or does it come as a USB stick really ?
@@OneMarcFifty - I bought the EM9191 M.2 card, along with a USB 3.0 adapter enclosure, in a kit from Wireless Haven. It turns out that the adapter needed to have two jumpers installed, for the the EM9191 to operate in USB mode. The modem now shows up in lsusb and usb-devices on my main Kubuntu 22.04 PC. Still need to figure out how to "connect" to it, and use it as an Internet uplink.
After installing the latest Modem Manager and qcserial utilities (had to compile/install qcserial) on my Kubuntu 22.04 PC, I was able to access the EM9191 modem using the Network Manager. Turning off the Ethernet port, and turning on the EM9191, running SpeedTest yielded numbers that are 2x - 3x the speed of my AT&T UVerse. Trying to access the EM9191 from the command line on my server, running Proxmox VE, I found that the Debian repositories don't have the latest utilities / drivers. They're available in the Backports repository, but installing fails due to dependencies. I wonder whether the OpenWRT x86-64 installation would have the latest utilities / drivers, and be able to access the EM9191, if its USB port was passed-through in Proxmox?
Great videos, as always. Useful and condensed info. cheers!
Many thanks !
Yes, please, for a PXE booting video from openwrt.
Hey, and there is another one - I really didn't expect so many requests for PXE ;-) Many thanks for your feedback !!!
Thank you, great video as usual. Keep it up!
Many thanks !
hi, I wanted to configure etherwake-nfqueue on a router with openwrt 23, but I was faced with the fact that I absolutely don’t understand how to add nftables rules. It’s also not clear how to enable a firewall for your home network.
Great video again Marc! Thanks!
I have specific problem and request that i think fits in the "Do you want me to make a video about nftables?" question. What about DLNA across VLANs? It seems to me multicast trafic needs to be routed and all working solutions i saw use iptables to bump the TTL counter as multcast uses TTL=1. It would be great if you could make a video about nftable with such concrete example. :) Thanks.
Oh - great idea! I had nearly discarded the idea of mdns/airplay/airprint/dlna but you are right - Doing it with nftables might be a game changer. Thanks for the feedback!
Amazing content !!! thank youuu
Thank you very much ;-)
Hi I found your videos by chance and love the way you explain. quick question have you used tailscale with openwrt and what do you think of it. Can you pls do a video of it and how to use it within your local network. thank you
Hi, quick question: is it possible to do bonding/LACP if the router only has one eth interface? I have a switch and router upstream, want to increase total bandwidth available to the OpenWrt router (as a dumb access point)
You can't increase the bandwidth of one interface that way. The hardware is the limit ;-)
@OneMarcFifty Yes, pls,pls, pls... Make video about PXE, especially how to make diskless Windows 10 and Linux instance.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! It’s noted;-)
OpenWrt solved the lag on my "poor" ADSL Connection even with eight devices!
Hey, many thanks for the feedback !
Hi Marc, great videos. I tried following your previous guide for OpenWRT / Luci / Wireguard. It didn't work for me. Would you consider doing an updated guide with OpenWrt 22.03.2 latest stable release?
Hi Chris - yes, I think I’ll have to update that one rather sooner than later
@@OneMarcFifty I did end up getting the road warrior setup working with help on the openwrt forum. Cheers!
I'm thinking about putting this onto an ER-X because I really don't like the Ubiquiti UI. I also don't like how the ER-X by default doesn't enable hwnat and I wasn't able to hit the full gigabit speed of my fiber without it. It seems very strange to me that this wouldn't be enabled.
I'm curious if openwrt will give me the full gigabit speeds or if I can enable hwnat using openwrt.
Not sure about that - It seems to be Mediatek based so hardware offloading should be supported : openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/edgerouter_x_er-x_ka
Hi Marc, thanks for this great explanation. My openwrt is on version 22 but still uses a switch. Not on 22.03 yet. Since is my main router that substitute the ISP router, i fear that during one update it will be moved to DSA. Is there a simple way to move the switch configuration to DSA without manually configure ut again?
Not really I am afraid- you’ll have to do it manually
Appreciation
QUESTION: I've setup my 2.4 mesh and in your other video states that I can set up another mesh for 5g. But when I do this the wifi on both of my tp-link c7's are disabled. Help!!! Please.
Hi Traviss, probably best if you jump on the discord server and create a support thread there. There's many friendly people who can help you.
I don't understand why nobody makes openwrt and dd-wrt videos. I like custom firmware videos especially for routers.
Btw if you are doing a video about pxe booting, check out "ipxe" project, it is a very powerful opensource PXE ROM (that can be flashed in the network card's ROM or chainloaded by an existing network boot firmware or flashed to a USB drive and so on)
Hi Marco, I didn't know that - many thanks for sharing !!!
What is your experience with the MT76 open-source wifi drivers in OpenWrt and have you tried running MTK drivers?
The drivers are excellent for MT7915. For 7615 they lack some things like e.g. MU-MIMo. They do run well and stable though
I am going to give a try, I have a spare router to play with.
Awesome- let me know how it goes ;-)