Recent content by Patrick9876

I should probably add that anyone familiar and comfortable with OpenWRT can run the OpenWRT firmware natively on on the MT6000. The GL-iNet firmware is just OpemWRT firmware with a set of plugins providing the GL-iNet GUI. The GUI presents a user-friendly interface for the router, but provides...

Warning: this is an overly long, and mostly useless posting about my process of getting a GL-iNet MT6000 up and running to replace my perfectly usable ASUS AX86U running Merlin. Well, this has been an interesting journey. I was right that the configuration process would take days rather than...

I just saw this thread. This suggestion is probably way off base, but if one of the PC's is a Dell you may have some 3rd party bloatware getting in the way. If you have SmartByte installed on some Dell computers and are sending (or receiving?) a large stream of large packets Smartbyte may...

I think I actually do want/need the complication because there a couple of things that are going to take a while for me to configure before I go live. The first is adding a couple CNAME records to the router's DNS config. This may be easier than I anticipate, but I expect I'm going to have to...

More questions before launch into this. My LAN on my old ASUS router is 192.168.50.0/24. The LAN on my new GL.inet router will be 192.168.8.0/24. I'd like to have communication between the two. Ideally I would like devices on the old LAN to communicate with devices on the new LAN. 15 years...

Good thing I'm going to have both the old and new routers running at the same time. Except for a rudimentary "Quick Start" guide, it looks like most of the manual is online. Tricky if you need the router correctly configured in order to access the manual that tells you how to correctly...

I have (now leave) UPnP disabled so that's not a problem. I hadn't thought about the VPN server - the only reason I'm using DDNS. I can work on them after I switch routers. I have all my computers configured to try 2 sets of SSIDs - one set for the current router and one for a new router...

Hmm. That's good to know. Thank you. Assuming I configure the two router's DDNS stuff the same then I won't know if its working on the new router. I'd better provide a different name on the new router. Or I could temporarily use a different DDNS service. Luckily, both the cable modem and...

I know nothing about the WAN connection between, for instance, a cable modem and a router so this may be a stupid question. Can I put a 2nd router on a LAN port of a 1st router? I'm probably going to soon buy a new router and am anticipating a fairly long learning curve in the configuring...

OK. A look at the DHCP protocol shows that you are obviously right about the DHCP server not finding anything. The DHCP handshake is initiated by the client; if the client does not make a request then the server does nothing. On to manual reservation. This sounds like defining a static IP...

Sorry to be dense, but I'm not sure how to interpret your first question. I haven't made any reservations. DHCP finds all active devices on my LAN when it comes up and assigns IP addresses to them. (It apparently caches those MAC/IP addr associations because it gives each device the same IP...

cname=ds218-2.of-lan,lanmail.of-lan,ds218_2.of-lan Not very exciting.

Yup. Same problem. I forgot I reported it back then. My connection is now going through a switch. (It apparently was not back when I first reported this.) The NAS gets its address via DHCP. And there is no problem accessing it with its address or actual host name after the reboot. It's...

The subject of the post is very poorly worded. I have a dnsmasq.conf.add file with a couple cname records adding host names to a NAS. After a reboot of the router the router's DSN does not know about these cnames. I have to disconnect and reconnect the NAS Ethernet cable in order for the DSN...

Well, sometimes running a speed test from the router is exactly what's needed. A few months ago my internet speed dropped to about 5% its usual speed. That seemed to be true for all computers on my LAN - wifi and wired. Based on some unexpected error messages in my cable modem's log (and some...