OpenWrt - FOSS Firmware For Your Router
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- In this video I teach you about OpenWRT which is a Free and Open Source Firmware that can be installed to most routers. I also show you how to flash OpenWRT to an Asus RT-AC51U
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Thanks for covering OpenWrt. It's an amazing piece of tech that doesn't get the credit it deserves. I've fallen so in love with it that I got involved in the community and made my own builds for undocumented ISP routers.
Thanks for contributing, we don’t thank enough people contributing to open source projects
just get a luxul
bro can you help me with my weird ahh router?
Undocumented routers sounds like euphemism for illegal migration xD
@@onepalesoul😂😂😂
Great coverage on OpenWRT! I've had nothing but a great experience running it on a cheap TP-Link Archer A7, and it is a dream compared to the other junk firmware that comes with consumer routers. Also, the front-end (LuCI) is incredible! It's relatively easy to install as well, I would highly suggest anyone with a spare router should absolutely install this and give it a shot! It's my main router right now and no problems in the slightest.
It's the only software that's ever inspired me to join their community forum and try to contribute! Crazy.
It's really hard to install newest tp link routers.
@@Ulvis_Bshould check Table of hardware first
Impeccable timing, literally earlier today I brought up OpenWRT in my workplace, we ended up flashing a small stack of decommissioned and discontinued APs with it. I got off my shift from doing that an hour and a half ago, that makes it roughly thirty minutes after I got off work you talk about the very thing I've been messing with for the day.
Bro we becoming one 😅
Ok
The latest firmware kinda bit me earlier this year. The firmware I had from TP-Link was dropping connection every hour or so. I found OpenWRT, flashed my router, and it has been stable since then.
I had to buy a second hotspot for 2.4 ghz because the routers 2.4 ghz chip is closed source... So that was less than ideal. But I still didn't have to buy a whole new router. I'm super impressed with OpenWRT so far.
Its an amazing project but we cant do anything about closed source things/components
@@309electronics5 Not everyone can reverse engineer closed source components, but everyone can raise their voice for open sourcing drivers and hardware documentation. 😉
@@309electronics5 Yup, makes sense. It was a valuable lesson for me for future routers I buy and specifically looking for full OpenWRT support. I'm never going back to closed source after this year.
@@309electronics5 They can be reverse engineered.
@@309electronics5reverse them? 😁
Amazing deepfake as always, Luke.
Chat, is this real
@@darukutsuyea sure
He disappeared to focus on his second channel mental outlaw
bros opsec wasn’t good enough 💀
lmao
*Note:* This video doesn't show the full steps. If you see the message indicating that you're in initramfs mode, this means your changes will be undone after a reboot. To finish the installation, you need to flash your router from OpenWrt upgrade interface, after which it'll be a persistent install. On some routers, you'll be able to just flash it from the stock firmware upgrade interface right away.
Cannot recommend OpenWRT enough.
I bought a number of Meraki routers at a city auction a few years ago for like $5 each. If I wanted to use the built-in Cisco firmware I would have had to pay a yearly license fee. Thanks to OpenWRT I was able to flash them (needed a UART) and actually use them in my and other family members' homes.
Also was pretty straightforward to setup WireGuard between them so we could share a Jellyfin server. Could not recommend enough.
UART is such a useful tool. You can even look for bricked routers if you can find them and potentially fix them through a UART connection.
Meraki for 5$ is crazy 😂🎉 damn
OpenWRT is the best base for developers of networking solutions (hardware and software)
Been using OpenWRT for years and couldn't be happier
You are my favorite black man
You are my favorite white kid
He's black? I thought he was northern Japanese
am I in your top 3 @@meinteybergen4617
It's most awesome that you showed the entire flashing process in realtime, without which, I expect some folk might be inclined to pull the plug (obviously not good), thinking something is wrong.
I think a lot of people would've benefited from seeing Step 7 being done especially on a Linux box.
I just wrote the same comment. The most crucial step just skipped over.
That is the easy part!
Now the hard part is making sense of the menu and of the wiki!
I remember being dependant on my isp provided router. My port forwards would occasionally go missing. Turned out the isp pushed firmware. Wouldn't be surprised if basically all store bought routers have access for alphabet boys built in
My ISP requires a fucking APP to manage the router, no web interface
@@total_epicness6776 bröther they in your phone too now👍
@@total_epicness6776😂
huawei makes my router, but my isp gave it to me, it runs an isp edition of the firmware that basically just changes ome thing, you cannot change the dns server for dhcp
@@total_epicness6776🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I'd say running an up-to-date firmware on your main, public facing, router is most important, so concider using OpenWRT on that, especially if the manufacturer stopped releasing updates. However, if you are using routers as access points, unless you don't trust the firmware the manufacturer provided, and/or are running those routers in a public setting (where many people might attempt to break into the router), you don't really need to install OpenWRT on them if the stock firmware does the job.
I'm running OpenWRT on my main router (which I bought specifically because it was supported by OpenWRT), and 2 routers as access points at home (from those 2, 1 isn't supported, and the other has Broadcom)
I ended up getting a bricked router and flashed the firmware through a UART serial connection. Maybe UART would be a neat subject you could cover in a video or something? Generally because you can use it to access a lot of hardware and dump/flash firmware.
Yes, but let us not forget, that the ISP will, most of the time, not let you run anything else than what is provided and most if the time it is up to the ISP to do that. I would love to run open source firmware on my router/s, which for a local network is fine, but the outside router (most of time the DHCP server) is still under the ISPs control.
That's only if you use the ISP provided router. I only have a modem from my ISP and run OPNsense on a standalone router
@@riongronberg1435 This depends. For example, I can use whatever router I want so long as I manage it. However, if you have a provider like AT&T, I've seen and heard in their terms of service that they require a termination of their service to their equipment. In that case, I would strongly recommend only using their router(as a modem) for it's ethernet port to your own managed router for wifi and other features.
I think my country just added a law going in to next year that, customers can use their own routers
Bridge that ISP modem mofo and connect openwrt router to that. Worked for me idk 🤷♂️
I currently run Merlin on my v2 AC68-U's. I'm a big fan of that line of routers. I may look into going full Foss now, thanks!
PS: It was nice to hear those tracker tunes! It was like I was there running a Vitality key gen back in the day!
Been using openwrt for a suuuper long time, and used ddwrt back in the WRT54G days. It's also an awesome for making a software defined router in a VM and connecting all your VMs up to it if you want to test it out before flashing to your hardware, or need some sort of SDR for your use case (ie want to connect all your VMs to a VPN without having to do it on each one manually).
I just pulled an all nighter trying to switch my Archer C20 firmware with OpenWRT, holy cow, that was quite the challenge! In the end it was worth it, the sheer amount of settings it opened up for me is more than I bargained for! But it is a learning curve and careful not to brick your device... I was lucky mine had a workaround to fix it or I'd be in trouble! lol
Congratulations... I did the openwrt migration last year on 5 boxes. 1. box is the main router for the internal networks and control of outgoing load balancing and failover. This router controls outgoing load balancing (edgerouter 2 & 3 for 2 wireless internet connections - same provider) and failover (edgerouter 4 - for alternative internet connection via neighbors WiFi or my mobile phone) using Mwan3 software-module . Router 5 is a hardware reserve if edgerouter 2-4 burn down, as they are very cheap consumer boxes. Also the setup is configured for 2 ingoing VPNs (private and my company) and has currently 20 vlans and firewall administered security zones. The good thing is also that Wireshark can be used to remote traffik-analysis (via ssh) to inspect networking issues.
Personally I use pfSense over OpenWRT and here's why - all of my machines are GNU / Linux based, if there ever were a zero day in GNU / Linux I'd be screwed. To be clear - I'm not saying OpenWRT is better or worse then pfSense, but in the unlikely event that a zero day was found in Linux, preventing attackers from getting to my router would be paramount since all of my systems are GNU / Linux based and would be vulnerable. In the unlikely event of a zero day on FreeBSD then the default firewalls of all of my Linux systems would protect those systems and my router would be the only thing compromised. I could be paranoid but the zero trust security model is always a good way to go. I also built my own router out of a SuperMicro server chassis, I'm not a fan of the junk hardware you get for $100 when for $150 you can get a full on server.
This but opnsense because pfsense devs are lame. Also, cheap 10G interfaces, VLANs, badass TIG stack dashboards, and run a trunk to a cheapo openwrt router that acts as a dumb AP for tons of wifi on different VLANs: separate your iot/guest/work/etc networks y’all.
@@duduoson1306 A dumb AP is a must I have an Intel Atom board running a pretty minimal install of debian w/ hostapd fot that, and a custom kernel driver I wrote for running a ST7735 display as my dashboard. No IoT crap aside from security cameras on their own ethernet VLAN and some stuff I've custom built running behind W5200s
Please make a video about all the cool stuff you can do on OpenWrt :)
I used to use DD-wrt to create bridges on cheap linksys routers in the early 2000's.
I use OpenWRT and installed in on my spare netbook with 2GB RAM. And man, this OS is amazing. I can install docker and make it a filesharing server, I can install OpenClash to make a pesudo tor network, I can install any linux apps basically. It's great, it only eats 100MB of RAM.
I need to get around to reflashing OpenWRT to my Netgear XR500 again. The only reason I abandoned it was because when I was moving, I had to connect my router to a router downstairs, as I wanted my own access points and things to be connected via ethernet, and for some reason it just wouldn't work right.
Being able to have a network wide adblocker is a nice thing.
ROUTER: How the NSA slurps your traffic
asking for Europe shipping on based win day 10, really want that hoodie, love your content ❤
Gotta make sure we're compliant with all them laws and shit, will probably happen after I get my licenses to sell farm stuff here in USA
@@MentalOutlaw thanks for letting us know!
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@@7eislol
I use it on a raspberry pi 4. Using a cheap USB gigabit Ethernet adapter and it works great.
It also easily handles cake QSM to defeat bufferbloat.
I use the built in Ethernet for my network and the USB one to connect to my modem. I think it's good up to 800mbps.
Any higher and id be looking for a non USB based connection by using a compute module and board with 2.5gb Ethernet.
LMAO your thumbnails are always so good.
Would be good to note that you are running in initramfs, you haven't actually installed OpenWrt at this point. You need to then sysupgrade to actually complete the install.
Even though I've been passingly involved in computers since kindergarten (in my school in the boonies of VA in like 1993 I was in a "special class" where we did basic stuff with computers... I think it was basically to test out the idea of actually having computer classes)
Anyways long story short I didn't own a computer until I was about 17. My next door neighbor is apparently rich asf and I was able to get a open wi-fi signal for several years when we first built our house. I then essentially done the research on what I needed to redistribute the signal throughout my house so I could use my computer anywhere... Instead of being relegated to approximately 1 square foot😅
I ended up making a repeater out of an old Linksys router by running ddwrt... I even built a highly directional Wi-Fi antenna out of an old satellite dish📡
Anywhos my internet worked great and for free for like 5 years. I am fairly certain the ISP or someone probably set up a new router for the neighbor... Of course my network that I now pay for has a clever ssid that is unusual enough that it doesn't sound like a government spook right off the bat however if they Google my ssid it will probably scare the pants off of somebody 😂😂
I was just wondering if you'd done a video on this. I use OpenWRT but rather than flashing the firmware on some crappy big box brand router I run it on an OrangePi R1 Plus solely as a router, No wifi, no DNS, no DHCP that's all handled elsewhere by things like pihole for dns and dhcp and I used TP link poweline adaptors / range extenders for wifi. I also have a managed switch with a dedicated DMZ netowrk on it's own vlan for my Tor relay node so if anything spooky happened to that since it has a port open to the world it's isolated from everything else
So a Rube Goldberg network. Sounds like a real treat. Actually it sounds like a lie.
@@Look_What_You_Did Ha no it's very well engineerd. I've got 20 years under my belt as a Linux / AWS and network admin and I've seen some Rube Goldberg shit in my time at some very large companies I've worked for. My setup is stupid simple in comparison but it's certainly a bit of a rats nest though. I'm not married though so I get away with shit like that. Occasianly there's some interesting stuff on this channel that's a ways outside my usual bubble so ther's always something to learn
I remember working on openwrt firmware based router back in 2017, my than ceo had asked me that, since openwrt is unix and freebsd based firmware so technically a kali linux(gui one) can also run a Linksys router. To which i had replied not yet please get back to me in 2077😂
Finally! I have been waiting for OpenWRT video
Would you trust Ubiquiti enough to not switch to OpenWRT?
"Become a remote blackhat network administrator" hahah now that is some good comedy right there
What music did you use in the video montage bit?
I have openwrt on my router. I had to find some fixes for WiFi antenna stuff related for my particular router and build an image from source. But upgrading the router to new version is much easier, only had to patch it with custom image for the first time
I'm a Asuswrt-Merlin enjoyer myself.
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The glowing one telling you what to install to your machine! Rebel, brothers! One day the technologies will fall! And also suggest you to use only one approach source of internet, that can be possible. Mental Outlaw, you won't trick us!
I'm using openwrt but only as AP/switch, as my Firewall/router I'm using pfsense, for me its way much better. But I still think that OpenWRT is a great solution
Pf sense just got exploited ....check the CVE and CISA for details man.
why not use opensense?
@@angelo3805 makes sense. 😁👍🏻
Me too. I want to separate my router and my access point. My AP is an old Netgear router with ddwrt
@@angelo3805 To be honest... I don't know, I just started using pfSense and it works for me. I can use OPNsense instead.
1:25 Not that I did not considered it. First time I flashed Tomato (another firmware) in my life was on my WNR3500L in 2010 when I was still underaged kid. Imagine managing to get it thru with father who never agrees to anything. Trick was that I bought the router and I configured it and offered it to parents since their setup succced really horribly, and my setup was marketably better. Still horrible since the pipe was ADSL2 based, but you could press f5 on 2 computers on lan at once without 5 second lag.
I can't find any DSL routers supported by open wrt or alternatives for sale where I live sadly
Love those tutorials, keep em comming!
absolutely love OpenWRT will never run a router again without it 👍
I installed tor client gateway last month using openwrt as you sugested. I didn’t felt good and felt like i am under surveillance all the time. So i ditched it 😂
Luke if someday you read this I hope come back with your channel
you should cover MPTCP next!
Hey, i wanted to try OpenWrt but i couldnt install it on my device, because i got no support for it. Can you make a video to show other alternatives and what to do if it is not supported?
doing god's work as always
Thanks for the content, please a video with the best modules to install from openwrt
Openwrt saved me from faulty TP-Link firmware I no longer had to reboot it once in a while
good video kinda cool because i was looking for the old fresh tomato vid yesterday lol
Lil late to tge party but I'm learning how to set up an OpnSense router/server currently. It'd be cool to see some coverage on custom router boxes from you too!
Openwrt such a chad move on my cpe 220
Best feature is having a wireless WAN interface. how to steal internet and having your own network
Sounds great, I'll give it a try, thanx!!
using wrt for i while, awesome stuff
oh, I have such a router too, I'm gonna try installing OpenWRT on it :D
Man this wisdom is learned in 2007
As a noob to flashing routers, Step #7 would have been nice to explain. 😑
brainlet question, but, am i misunderstanding things or is basically no cable modem/router supported by openwrt? im curious, where does the customer base for DSL exist? clearly there must be isps out there offering dsl that is actually workable - in my neck of the woods it is unusably slow.
On a single router that handles the cable function ? probably not. But there are many routers (only routers ) that simply aren't supported by OpenWRT as well.
Many people have a separate cable modem or separate dsl modem. Combo units just aren't as popular except from cable companies directly; still junk IMO. Those that know choose a better router that has better specs for a reason; so most learn quickly to buy a better router.. To a lesser degree, this is also true of the cable modem/dsl modem; but more important for wifi/routing with more devices on a given network.
DSL is a phone line based thing; and is dependent upon how close their "DSL Access Multiplexer (DSLAM)" is to your modem, along with the speeds that they support, & the quality of the lines in between. And with certain vendors, like I had with AT&T, well, they'll boast "you'll get 100Mbps" and as soon as you hook up, oops, sorry, the only thing we could get you was 1.5 Mbps..This is a classic bait and switch approach to keeping customers.. And there's also the chance that the ISP needs to fine tune settings on their end; so you may have to call them several times to get them to correct settings on their sides ( happened to me with cable ). The 100 Mbps thing did happen with AT&T and once hooked up, oh, sorry, you can only get 1.5; that was an immediate no thank you, please terminate service !!! AT&T - well, I don't have a positive opinion about them due to both DSL and DirecTv.
Don't forget open builds based on OpenWrt like Kong builds for Linksys R7800
Sick durag on the deepfake my wigga
Great video!
Dewie looks so good luke.
Also, it runs perfectly in a VM.
Lol i just recently looked into this. Nice.
I had home experience with two alternative router firmware: OpenWRT on a TP-Link router and RouterOS on a Mikrotik device. And in my opinion, OpenWRT is a messy toy that is somehow more broken than RouterOS. After doing an update, having to reset it because I locked myself out and then restoring the old configuration 1:1 it for some reason still refused to work. No one ever uses it in a professional environment for a good reason, not everything that's FOSS is gold.
Meanwhile RouterOS, for all it's flaws, has an amazing amount of functionality, and Mikrotik constantly supports their oldest hardware with the newest version of their firmware, which can't be said about ISP routers or regular consumer routers like TP-Link. Hell, even Cisco or Ubiquiti doesn't offer this much long-term support! I honestly fell in love with what these devices can do and I wouldn't imagine buying any other home network hardware that isn't Mikrotik at this point.
I was surprised my Verizon 5g Home Gateway+Router was open source. 😊
I see someone binged defcon recently
FINALLY .. someone talks about his. As someone who has like 2 router and 3 soft router/ LAN managers I can say the router is where the buck stops. PI Hole IPtables UFW are always on deck. I have seen the the binaries for openwrt for alot of the orange pis and larger nano pis. I have tried openwrt on the orange pi zero but never got the LUA configuration to actually work. Also yes the wifi support is terrible for the most part. Openwrt FTW.
OpenWart, disinfect properly. - A glowie
how big would the difference between openwrt snd merlin be ?
Keep in mind OpenWrt initially Disables WIFI automatically, at least it did on my A7
owned many routers over the years, and i never managed to have one supported by open-wrt. don't know what to make of that.
Lmao I love your delivery.
Why do you have more than one NAT router for?
If you have no choice but to use an off the shelf retail consumer grade router, then *WRT/*Tomato is definitely better than the stock firmware (*** assuming it's stable and works properly for your model (if it's even available at all) and you can get it installed without bricking your device ***). If you want to take off the training wheels and really cruise, though, a cheap SBC running pfSense or OpnSense is a much better way to go. No dinking around and risk of bricking your Walmart router just to get the system set up. Much easier to set up and maintain, far better development support with timely updates, and far more flexible and powerful. Consumer grade routers are MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) and really aren't worth investing any effort in. Building your own is a far better option and isn't any more difficult. In fact it's much easier in most ways, and you get a far better result in the end.
The music. 🕺🕺🕺🕺
I've installed open wrt before but I can never get snork to work
Idk if you guys can help, but I bought a modem that is also a wireless AP that’s also a router that’s also a switch, and I was trying to flash it to throw FOSS on it, and I found that ISPs lock down MY OWN equipment so I can’t update my own firmware on it. Is there anyway I can flash it or spoof a firmware update to have it look like my isp is pushing it
my isp gave me a router running openwrt.
and due to misconfigured ubus i have full root access to it
it's just plain openwrt with a single little proprietary package to power the remote router reboot from the mobile app (idk who tf even needs that??)
default dhcp config is super messed up, ipv6 barely works and they disabled instead of trying to fix it (while fixing it just involves removing the completely incorrect ipv6 config options???, defaults work just fine)
the image is like a couple of years out of date without an update path
it also updates without my consent and i haven't figued out how it does that, but update packages seem to only include the web frontend.
does it support remote configuration,cause I have some tenda F3 and f6,which I would like to access them remotely using an iOS phone and android phone
my man got the duu on lets goo
Hey thats my router in your thumbnail
I always read OpenWRT as Open Double U-Arr-Tee. Not “Open Wert”. 😅
in school we use pfsense for our router
Before you decide to upgrade your router make sure you have a PC with LAN connection. OWRT turns WiFi off until you do first setup. Dont ask me how I found THAT out...
i have ZXHN H267N and I would love to install this but I fear that i will just brick it in the end, does anyone know if it works?
I got OpenWRT running on my netgear router easy, even wifi works. Not sure if my config is wrong or not but my older laptop and raspberry pi wont connect to it, but my 'modern' desktop and phone do fine
Based router man
Thoughts on AsusWRT-Merlin?
You connected to the same internet the rest of us are?
thanks black luke smith
What about pfSense and and/or opnSense?
I borked my router after ininstalling openwrt somehow. Good software though. I had a 2nd router so no worry, but now I have to figure out how to unbork it.
yo love this content
Only problem I can see is certain ISPs could just block it cause they determine it goes against their ToS
I tried installing this just the other day. Bricked my router, no idea why. I followed the instructions to the letter.