Soon after posting yesterday’s blog entry, How To: VPN Between RV082 (or RV042) and WRT54GL (or WRT54G), I received a comment from Paul Wouters:
Use dpdaction=restart
btw yout ike/ipsec lifetimes are insanely short. you should not do that. leave them default, and the shortest one of the other device will be used.
Paul, if you’re reading this, thanks for the tips!
I wasn’t sure how I could have missed that useful dpdaction=restart setting so I went back and checked the ipsec.conf man page this morning. Sure enough, the dpdaction=restart setting was missing from the man page. That’s why I missed it! See! I did RTFM!
Anyway, I did some googling to find out more about dpdaction=restart and I came across this Openswan mailing list message, authored by none other than Paul Wouters: …Continue reading » A Virtual Visit from Paul Wouters
Introduction
Using the OpenWrt Linux distribution, you can configure a LinkSys WRT54G (also WRT54GS and WRT54GL) router as an IPSec VPN endpoint. This IPSec VPN functionality is provided by an Openswan package that was built specifically for OpenWrt.
In this How To, I will show you how to create a VPN between a LinkSys WRT54GL and a LinkSys RV082 (RV042 could be used also). …Continue reading » How To: VPN Between RV082 (or RV042) and WRT54GL (or WRT54G)
I finally used Windows’ arp command for something useful.
Last week I was configuring numerous brand new LinkSys routers for various branch offices. After successfully configuring the first one, I plugged in the second and tried to connect to it’s web admin page. Unfortunately, my connection attempt kept on timing out. After a couple of minutes of pulling my hair out, I remembered something I had learned about in school a few years ago — Address Resolution Protocol or ARP for short. …Continue reading » Arp Tip
I installed Tinyproxy 1.6.3 on my LinkSys WRT54GS router today. Following are some installation notes and comments about Tinyproxy.
My router currently runs the White Russian RC5 release of the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Tinyproxy is not yet an officially supported OpenWrt package. Rather, it is part of the “backports” package repository. To install Tinyproxy, I first had to add the backports repository to my repository list by adding the following line to my /etc/ipkg.conf file: …Continue reading » Tinyproxy on WRT54GS
