hpr3799 :: My home router history - Audiolibro Gratis

Summary: Recent router maintenance makes me remember all the fun I've had with my home network router

Source: [http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3799](http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3799)

Original audio: [https://archive.org/download/hpr3799/hpr3799\_source.flac](https://archive.org/download/hpr3799/hpr3799\_source.flac)

Router History

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Early Dialup

• Connection sharing

DSL/Cable

• Linux PC with 2 NIC

• Set up IP masquerading

• Windows connection sharing

• This may have been against TOS

• $50 EBay PC

• Mandrake MNF

Found a PC on the Street

• IPCop

• Infrequently updated

• No updates required or abandoned?

OpenBSD

• Reputation for Security

• Something New

• Good instructions for setting up home office.

• Manual but straightforward

WRT-54gl with tomato

• Linksys router sold specifically to run Linux

• Purchased to be AP

• Junk PC hardware failures - PSU or IDE disks

• Frequently used as backup.

PCEngines Alix

• Basically a PC in a router form factor

• Serial port - NO VGA

• No USB boot - Had to set up PXE boot tftp server.

• Install OpenBSD

• No Video out - Serial port only

• Expensive for specs - 500MHz AMD CPU and 256M Ram

Alix Limitations

• Worked great for a few years

• Compact Flash limited replacements.

• 100M Ethernet

• Found Spare on EBay as Backup, just in case.

PCEngines APU2

• Serial only

• OpenBSD 5.6 via USB drive

• 3 NIC - Lan, Trusted, Untrusted

• Unifi AP for WiFi

First playbook

• Missing some easy management

• Local DNS

• DHCP Reservations

• [http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3187](http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3187)

• CSV file with IP,MAC, Hostname

• DHCP reservation and local DNS

Restricting Internet

• Open DNS and port redirects

• Unbound included on OpenBSD base

• Caching DNS resolver

• Forward to Open DNS - Set to do some content filtering

• PF rule to redirect all incoming port 53 to unbound

• PF scripts

• PF table with IP addresses of devices

• Table always blocked

• cron jobs to add/remove IP addresses to table

APU2 limitations

• Installer Recommends Auto partitioning

• Doesn't know how you plan to use OpenBSD

• Doesn't know the future plans for project.

• 16G msata drive

• Small /usr

• Re-linking growth

• Moving src partitions

PCEngines APU2

• Search /etc for changes

• Ansible Playbook for everything not covered by DNS/DHCP playbook

• email forwarding

• sysctls

• syslog to server

• Practice on OpenBSD VM

• 198.168 172.20 as variable

• Normally with VM, I use the VirtIO NIC

• I used vitalized Intel NIC so same device names: em0, em1, ...

Just Do It

• Update APU firmware - TODO retails

• /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/flashrom

• Warned family internet would be offline a few hours

• Replaced M2 Sata card with 120

• It worked the first time

Links

• [https://www.ipcop.org/index\_php.html](https://www.ipcop.org/index\_php.html)

• [https://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm](https://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm)

• [https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm](https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm)

• [https://pcengines.ch/howto.htm#OS\_installation](https://pcengines.ch/howto.htm#OS\_installation)

• [https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html](https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html)