1 Introduction In the previous article (see: Home Data Center Series: Using X-WRT to Transform Retired Small Hosts: An Alternative Choice for Main Routers), I used an idle J2900 x86 small host to tinker with the soft router. It worked fine, the performance was more than adequate, and the system was stable...

1 Introduction I have always used iQuick as the main router in my home data center. Its main advantage is that it supports multi-dial function (for the detailed concept of multi-dial, please refer to the article:). Because my home telecom broadband supports up to 3 dials, I can obtain 3 public network IPv4 addresses at the same time, which is very useful for people like me who have multiple line access...

Preface In the previous article, I deployed openwrt using a virtual machine (see: OpenWrt soft router series PVE deployment OpenWrt (23.05.2) detailed tutorial). In addition to this method, you can also install openwrt directly on a bare metal machine and use d…

Preface I started playing with routers with Netgear's R7000: But it seemed to be the era of ADSL 8M, and the uplink was only 512k, so I didn't bother much at first and just used the official firmware. And I remember that the blockade at that time was far from what it is now, and the impact was still...

Preface In the previous article (see: OpenWrt Soft Router Series PVE Deployment OpenWrt (23.05.2) Detailed Tutorial), I deployed openwrt on pve. This article is to install the three necessary software on openwrt: o…

Preface Actually, I used lede a long time ago, but the main purpose at that time was for multi-dial. Later, after using iQuick, I found that iQuick was invincible in multi-dial, so I gave up lede (one reason was that I didn’t like the interface of lede). Now my home Internet access is physical iQuick + AC…