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Support for Linux clients and OPENVPN on R7000 or any other Netgear router
Althought the R7000 router has support for MAC and Windows clients when using the Netgear R7000 OPENVPN built-in server, it does not support Linux as a client. See the following link: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R7000-VPN-Service-TAP-or-TUN/m-p/1002408#M20691 Currently I am running the latest "supported" firmware version: V1.0.4.30_1.1.67 as of Nov 10 2015 There is a great number of Linux users and not being able to take advantage of the OPENVPN server in the Router seems to be a big limitation/oversight. I personally purchased this router because of the fat that it had a built in OENVPN server, so that I could connect my Android and Linux devices to my network. As I discovered after purchasing the router neither of these platforms are supported. It seems that IOS and Android support is coming, but no plans to implement Linux. It may be possible to manually configure a Linux client if Netgear would publish how OPENVPN is implemented. I understand that this would not be "supported" by Netgear, but for those of us who have some technical skill we could possibly implement it and make it work for our needs. Providing information such as and not limited to the following would be very useful since OPENVPN is open source software: Tunnel Device (TUN/TAP) Protocol UDP/TCP) Port number (1194 -> official port, or another port defined by Netgear) Encryption cipher (None, blowfish, AES-512/256/192/128 CBC, etc....) Hash algorithm (SHA1/256/512,MD4/5,none, etc....) TLS Cipher (none, AES-128/256 SHA, etc...) LZO Compression (Adaptive, yes/No, none) Authority/ Password usage TLS Auth Key usage ? PKCS12 Key usage? Static Key usage? ns-cert-type server ? Is access limited to the local network, to access the internet only, or to both local and internet? etc..... This post is essentially to ask for Netgear to provide the following: Implement a Linux client file and instructions on how to implement it for the various distributions of Linux. Provide comprehensive documentation on how OPENVPN is implemented in the R7000 router or any other router that has an OPENVPN server built-in.Nighthawk M1 Linux RNDIS / USB Connectivity Issues After Latest Firmware Update
So after a Firmware update (either Telstra or Netegar, not sure who is the culprit!) on the Nighthwak M1, USB tethering connectitvity stopped for Linux-based OSs (excluding MAC OS of course). Tested on Ubuntu / Debian etc. Big thanks to Uebernerd (Post 135 on https://community.netgear.com/t5/Mobile-Routers-Hotspots-Modems/Netgear-810-update/m-p/1251948 ) In short, Linux does not pick up the correct bConfigurationValue for cdc_ether (it sets it as "1" and not "3"), which stops tethering from working. Instead of using my two Nighthawk M1s as doorstops, I have managed to get them back up and running. The following script can be modified to monitor dmesg (throw in a "while" etc.): #!/bin/bash usb_port=`dmesg | grep MR1100 | egrep -o '[0-9]+\-[0-9]+'` if [ "$usb_port" != "" ]; then echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/$usb_port/bConfigurationValue fi Obviously this will require running with super-user privileges. It's a cludgy workaround, so if anyone knows how to make this more permanent, please feel free to respond to this post! Cheers
WN2000RPTv3 runs OpenWrt Linux for MIPS
Trying to determine if a DHCP server is hidden in the WN2000RPTv3 firmware, I took a look at the current ...v3 update .img file - hoping ASCII stuff like URLs would be in clear text. The answer is no, but the first few hundred bytes is enlightenting: 00: 64 65 76 69 63 65 3A 77 6E 32 30 30 30 72 70 74 device:wn2000rpt 10: 76 33 0A 76 65 72 73 69 6F 6E 3A 56 31 2E 30 2E v3.version:V1.0. 20: 31 2E 34 0A 72 65 67 69 6F 6E 3A 0A 68 64 5F 69 1.4.region:.hd_i 30: 64 3A 32 39 37 36 33 39 30 34 2B 34 2B 33 32 0A d:29763904+4+32. 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 80: 32 30 30 34 77 22 3F 2B 56 38 20 38 00 0C 47 B3 2004w"?+V8 8..G. 90: 80 00 20 00 80 1E 6B A0 7A 0E 31 FC 05 05 02 03 .. ...k.z.1..... A0: 4D 49 50 53 20 4F 70 65 6E 57 72 74 20 4C 69 6E MIPS OpenWrt Lin B0: 75 78 2D 32 2E 36 2E 33 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ux-2.6.31....... C0: 6D 00 00 80 00 70 9B 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 01 m....p.%........ D0: CF 4E 80 07 40 3C 00 EA 3F F2 E0 C0 CF FC C6 50 .N..@<..?......P . . . Interesting. It appears to run MIPS OpenWrt Linux. (https://openwrt.org/) Unfortunately, the box does not respond to SSH on :22, though it responds, of course, on :80 with a login page. I'd be nice to find the file system. I don't recognize what seem to be loader headers [device:, version:, region:, hd_id:]. Are they familar to anyone? TomEX6200 Range Extender (losing connections, how to configure from web browser)
I have the EX6200 and am happy with the performance but from time to time it loses it's connection to my router. When this happens I power cycle the EX6200, it reconnects, and I am back up and running for 1-2 weeks, then I lose it again. Curious if there are settings I can adjust to fix this. Also, I am a primarily Linux household, so I am curious if there is a web interface for configuration.