Category Archives: OpenWRT

A friend runs two separate subnets at home: one is for home computing/entertainment, and the other is work-related. It’s important to keep the entertainment users off the work LAN. Here’s how we set up separate LANs under OpenWRT. Continue reading →

In other posts I talked about booting my OpenWRT routers off an external USB stick. In this post I’ll describe how to make the /var directory tree persistent across reboots. Continue reading →

I use OpenWRT for my wireless access point, and for some other projects. I often set up an OpenWRT box running off an external USB stick, instead of its internal flash. Last time I introduced pivotroot scripts; this time I’ll discuss my own improvements in this process. Continue reading →

I use OpenWRT for my wireless access point, and for some other projects. I often set up an OpenWRT box running off an external USB stick, instead of its internal flash. This time I’ll intorduce pivotroot scripts, and next time I’ll discuss improvements in this process between OpenWRT releases, and then my extensions. Continue reading →