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are there any logs or anything I can provide to help debug. I can reproduce it 100% of time.

I have router version 386.3_2 on RT-AC5300. It seems to reboot when a filtered url is visited from a connected computer. Steps to reproduce : 1. Go to Firewall->URL Filter 2. Enable URL filter , filter type 'Blacklist' 3. Add a keyword 'drama' (i had 5 other fqdn url in list if that matters) 4...

that's a good point. My triggering client is javascript. For ssh I would have to shell out to console. Not a big deal, but HTTP is little more convenient.

I am answering my own question. Yes, you can. I found only some of parameters can be sent to turn on/off VPN. Above post was about IPSec vpn, but I found that to be unstable (causing router to reboot). So I switched to openVPN. Here are parameters for turning on openVPN , rest of parameters need...

I have setup ipsec vpn on my router and my laptop and it is working fine. Now I am trying to enable/disable VPN using based on some triggers from laptop. I checked the http call made by web browser to server when I enable/disable the VPN (using chrome dev console). Looks like when clicking the...

sorry didn't understand. how would that work ?

true. however my point was little different. I was trying to make it so that security is enforced by server not client. if there was ssh access, server would allow any command (including "sudo rm -rf /" ) to be run and it will be at mercy of client to not do anything bad. However in case of...

Thanks for suggestion. That would definitely work. However, it sounds equivalent to 3rd option, where caller would have full admin access to router. I was hoping to have limit access (only to limited set of command/scripts) like in first two options.

Apologies if this is wrong forum. This is my first post. For my home automation, I am looking to send commands to my router from my home automation server (to enable/disable guest network on demand, or to open/close ports on demand). When searching forums, all I could find was MQTT publish...