1 Preface In the previous article (see: Home Data Center Series: Transforming a Retired Mini PC with X-WRT: An Alternative Choice for Main Router), I used an idle J2900 x86 mini PC to tinker with a software router. It ran fine, with performance to spare and a stable system...
1 Preface The main router of my home data center has always been iKuai. Its main advantage is supporting multi-dialing (for the detailed concept of multi-dialing, see the article: ). Since my home Telecom broadband supports up to 3 dials, I can obtain 3 public IPv4 addresses simultaneously, which for someone like me with multi-line access...
Preface: In previous articles, I deployed OpenWrt using a virtual machine (see: OpenWrt Soft Router Series: Detailed Tutorial on PVE Deployment of OpenWrt (23.05.2)). In addition to this method, you can also install OpenWrt directly on bare metal or use d...
Preface: I officially started playing with routers probably with Netgear's R7000. However, back then it seemed to be the era of 8M ADSL, with an uplink of only 512k, so I didn't tinker much at first and just used the official firmware. And in my memory, the blocking back then was far from comparable to now, and the impact was...
Preface: In the previous article (see: OpenWrt Soft Router Series: Detailed Tutorial on PVE Deployment of OpenWrt (23.05.2)), I deployed OpenWrt on PVE. This article is about installing 3 software packages on OpenWrt that I consider necessary: o...
Preface: Actually, I used LEDE a long time ago, but the main purpose back then was for multi-dialing. Later, after using iKuai, I found that iKuai was unbeatable in terms of multi-dialing, so I abandoned LEDE (partly because I didn't really like LEDE's interface). Now my home internet setup is physical iKuai + AC...
Introduction: As shown in the figure above, with the deep implementation of the "cyber powerhouse" strategy, in the past two years, major domestic operators have racked their brains to reclaim public IPv4 addresses. Taking Chengdu Telecom as an example: as long as you change your plan, even if you upgrade it, the original public IPv4 address may also...
Preface: Actually, I've struggled with this issue many times over the years. It's not that there's any technical upgrade, but simply that after some time, I forget how to do it. After all, as I get older, my memory declines, and I can't remember how many times I've repeatedly researched this. Now that I have a blog, I can finally record it as...
Preface: If we are talking about the soft router that has the best support for multi-dialing, I think it must be iKuai without a doubt. What I mean by the strongest includes four levels of meaning: first, it supports multi-dialing; second, the details of multi-dialing are well done; third, the supporting functions have the best multi-dialing support; and fourth, the configuration logic is simple. Actually, the last point, configuration logic...