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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.
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? TomRecover from BTRFS RAID
Hello all After attempting all official methods to revive a Netgear RN-102ND NAS, I've removed the single WD 3TB Green drive to recover its data. Slaving it to a Windows PC, I open a popular program around here called Sysinternals Linux Reader for recovery. However upon attempting to open a partition for reading, a dialogue appears stating "can't open disk: Btrfs Volume 1 (0e34c953:data, raid) Check the disk and try again". SMART attributes are good, but I am about to run a bad sector scan. Can anybody shed any light on whether this has occured to them and what they did to overcome (if at all)? Richard