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...