Hardware

Today’s solution is a bit unusual - my network drive (NAS) recently stopped working, and to sort it out I need to do some digging in it. In the meantime, I would like to use the USB 3.0 port built into my WRT3200ACM router with OpenWrt software to share a USB drive on the network.

Whether you have reinstalled OpenWrt or updated it, even though you have backed up your settings, any additionally installed packages have not (will not) been preserved, so restoring the settings will not make everything as it was. For now, this is normal behavior with OpenWrt. Therefore, you need to think about how to approach this so that the update and restore of settings will proceed as expected, i.e. together with the packages.

Today I am going to discuss a topic that causes problems for people who have an Internet connection without a permanent external IP address if we want to run a VPN server on our connection, as I described in the post Installing a VPN server on a router with OpenWrt (WireGuard).

Depending on where we use our router, we may be in a situation where we need to have a backup plan in case our primary internet connection goes down.

So you’ve decided to change the firmware on your router from the one provided by your hardware manufacturer to the more open and secure OpenWrt firmware. Congratulations!

If you have a router with OpenWrt, you have probably thought more than once about how to set up a VPN server on it so that you can connect to the network from outside your home or office and have access to local data, such as a network drive or printer.

You are probably aware that it is very important that the website you visit, especially the one where you enter any data (including login and password) is secured with a so-called green padlock, i.e. served by https:// before the name of the website.