What about using your OpenWrt router as OpenWrt torrent downloader box ? Far better than using a smartphone or laptop for this purpose. There are many openwrt torrent clients, ctorrent, very […]
How to setup OpenWrt QoS with luci-app-sqm
Fair bandwidth sharing among different devices may be an issue on a local network, say torrent client on the PC sucking all upload bandwidth. If the router is running openwrt, […]
How to configure Dnsmasq caching DNS server in Linux
Dnsmasq is an incredible piece of software, an integrated DHCP, DNS, PXE and TFTP server. It's extremely lightweight and easy on CPU and uses very low memory, perfect for constrained embedded […]
Simple bandwidth shaping in Linux with firejail
Network bandwidth shaping or traffic shaping is extensively used for efficient use of available network bandwidth and fairer bandwidth sharing. Most common use of bandwidth shaping in Linux desktop is […]
Boot Slitaz from a OpenWrt pxe boot server
Slitaz is an extremely lightweight GNU/Linux distribution specially for resource limited systems, just around 42MB. This tiny distro packs enough feature reach tool sufficient for regular use. Slitaz's openbox and LXDE […]
Booting Slax Linux from OpenWrt PXE server
First of all, if you don't know what is Slax, it's a highly usable and compact slackware based GNU/Linux live CD distro just around 230 MB. It's one of the […]
How to setup a multiboot PXE server with OpenWrt
PXE servers are cool, boot one or many machines over the network, install a new OS, run live CDs on disk-less machines, etc. etc. Why not setup a multiboot PXE […]
How to setup an OpenWrt PXE boot server
Have a router with OpenWrt installed ? Why not use it for something else ? As a OpenWrt PXE server for booting your favorite Linux/UNIX distro. Possibilities with a PXE […]
How to setup OpenWrt extroot, rootfs on USB storage
Here I'm going to share my experience with OpenWrt extroot on a TP-Link MR-3220 v2.4 router. Though I did this on a MR-3220, this guide also applies to other routers like […]
6 lightweight Web Server for Linux
Here's how you can create a lightweight web server on Linux easily to test some code, serve static HTML files or whatever you like. There's no need of a full […]