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Here is a recap of an old project. following this straight through won’t be enough to redo what I’ve done, but the websites and hints that I followed are linked throughout this post.<\/p>\n
I bought a Belkin PlayMax 600HD router<\/a> from Best Buy because I read in some review that I could do port forwarding (needed to setup my own server at home).\u00a0 Well after a lot of time in the settings and several emails to Belkin it turns out that this feature isn’t built in.\u00a0 So after a friend told me about dd-wrt I decided to give it a shot after reading a lot of forums to see if my router would work.\u00a0 This forum post <\/a>on dd-wrt.com is about my router.<\/p>\n For the most part I followed the instructions from teh dd-wrt site: http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Installation<\/a><\/p>\n Start by doing a 30\/30\/30 reset<\/a>. The text below is copied from the dd-wrt website.<\/p>\n The following procedure will clear out the NVRAM and set dd-wrt back to default values:<\/p>\n This procedure should be done BEFORE and AFTER every firmware upgrade\/downgrade.<\/p>\n Do not use configuration restore if you change firmware builds (different svn build numbers).<\/p>\n I got my files from ftp:\/\/ftp.dd-wrt.com\/others\/eko\/V24-K26\/<\/p>\n My Router is advised to only use the TFTP: http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/wiki\/index.php\/TFTP_flash<\/p>\n First I flashed the 15508 mini and then a 30\/30\/30 reset.\u00a0 Even though I’m advised to use TFTP I used the webpage GUI\u00a0 to flash the 18946 mega and followed up with a 30\/30\/30 reset.\u00a0 I’ve found that Firefox has issues with webpage GUI and have reverted to Internet Explorer for all setting changes and flash updates. \u00a0 I actually tried several different version and sizes for my router and sometimes had issues with enabling SSH or other weird things.\u00a0 I even had a problem with the 18946 mega for a while, but after a lot of time trying different things I believe that I simply didn’t get a good flash from either not doing a 30\/30\/30 reset properly or something else.\u00a0 But in the end the 18946 mega works for me.<\/p>\n In the system settings I now see:<\/p>\n There is a ton of configuring to do that I’m not going to get into because I either don’t remember what I set or I’m concerned about leaking potential security details.\u00a0 Things that I’ve added are Wake up on Lan (WOL) for my media server, SSH is a must to get into the file system from within the network, port forwarding (see below) and sharing the two USB drive connections over the network (see below)<\/p>\n I had a heck of a time getting port forwarding to work for computers within the LAN.\u00a0 Here is a post I placed on the dd-wrt forum about this topic:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are several websites that I referenced read and found useful along the way<\/p>\n In the end I added the following to the firewall section in the Administration->Commands section<\/p>\n I’ll have to say I’m not entire sure I understand what is happening, but it works so I’m not complaining.\u00a0 Now I’m able to see this website both internal and external to my network.<\/p>\n I have two 1TB USB drives attached to my router the following are the steps that I took which mostly comes from following this sites instructions<\/a> which also uses the dd-wrt sites instructions of Optware, the Right Wa<\/a>y.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Format the hard drives Save then do a reboot<\/p>\n Check Services->USB to see the Optware and Swap loaded<\/p>\n Next SSH into the router and verify the \/opt partition is mounted<\/p>\n Check for router connection to the internet<\/p>\n Next download the optware prep script<\/p>\n Now run the prep optware script. I choose Y for all questions<\/p>\n Then I did a reboot<\/p>\n Check free space on optware partition<\/p>\nHard Reset (aka 30\/30\/30 reset):<\/h4>\n
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Router Name: BLT_ROUTER<\/div>\nRouter Model: Belkin F7D4301 \/ F7D8301 v1<\/div>\nFirmware Version: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (04\/07\/12) mega – build 18946M NEWD-2 K2.6 Eko<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPort Forwarding<\/h2>\n
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insmod ipt_mark\r\ninsmod xt_mark\r\niptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ! `get_wanface` -d `nvram get wan_ipaddr` -j MARK --set-mark 0xd001\r\niptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j CONNMARK --save-mark\r\niptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -m mark --mark 0xd001 -j MASQUERADE<\/pre>\n
NAS USB Drives<\/h2>\n
\n(I did this at another time and didn’t record my steps)
\nEnable USB at Services->USB
\nand enable the following parameters:
\nCore USB Support
\nUSB Storage Support
\nAutomatic Drive Mount
\nDisk Mount Option = \/opt<\/p>\nDisk Info\r\n--- \/dev\/discs\/disc0\/disc \r\nBlock device, size 931.5 GiB (1000204886016 bytes) \r\nDOS\/MBR partition map \r\nPartition 1: 930.5 GiB (999128297984 bytes, 1951422457 sectors from 2055) \r\nType 0x07 (HPFS\/NTFS) \r\nNTFS file system \r\nVolume size 930.5 GiB (999128297472 bytes, 1951422456 sectors) \r\nPartition 2: 1 GiB (1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors from 1951424512) \r\nType 0x0F (Win95 Ext'd (LBA)) \r\nPartition 5: 767 MiB (804257792 bytes, 1570816 sectors from 1951424512+2048) \r\nType 0x83 (Linux) \r\nExt2 file system \r\nVolume name \"\/Optware\" \r\nUUID 0A911958-F81C-51AA-E421-3C2F22FBB048 (Reserved) \r\nVolume size 767 MiB (804257792 bytes, 196352 blocks of 4 KiB) \r\nPartition 6: 255 MiB (267386880 bytes, 522240 sectors from 1952997376+2048) \r\nType 0x82 (Linux swap \/ Solaris) \r\nLinux swap, version 2, subversion 1, 4 KiB pages, little-endian \r\nSwap size 255.0 MiB (267378688 bytes, 65278 pages of 4 KiB) \r\nStatus: Mounted on \/opt \r\nStatus: Not mounted \r\nStatus: Not mounted \r\nStatus: Not mounted<\/pre>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:~# mount\r\n\r\nrootfs on \/ type rootfs (rw)\r\n\/dev\/root on \/ type squashfs (ro)\r\nnone on \/dev type devfs (rw)\r\nproc on \/proc type proc (rw)\r\nsysfs on \/sys type sysfs (rw)\r\nramfs on \/tmp type ramfs (rw)\r\ndevpts on \/dev\/pts type devpts (rw)\r\ndevpts on \/proc\/bus\/usb type usbfs (rw)\r\n\/dev\/discs\/disc0\/part5 on \/opt type ext2 (rw,noatime)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:~# ping google.com\r\n\r\nPING google.com (74.125.239.7): 56 data bytes\r\n64 bytes from 74.125.239.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=17.870 ms\r\n64 bytes from 74.125.239.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=17.222 ms\r\n--- google.com ping statistics ---\r\n2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss\r\nround-trip min\/avg\/max\/stddev = 17.222\/17.546\/17.870\/0.324 ms<\/pre>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:~# wget -O \/tmp\/prep_optware http:\/\/wd.mirmana.com\/prep_optware\r\n\r\n--2012-11-11 21:53:33--\u00a0 http:\/\/wd.mirmana.com\/prep_optware\r\nResolving wd.mirmana.com... 212.123.145.69\r\nConnecting to wd.mirmana.com|212.123.145.69|:80... connected.\r\nHTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK\r\nLength: 25381 (25K) [application\/octet-stream]\r\nSaving to: `\/tmp\/prep_optware'\r\n\r\n100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 25,381\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 48.4K\/s\u00a0\u00a0 in 0.5s\r\n\r\n2012-11-11 21:53:34 (48.4 KB\/s) - `\/tmp\/prep_optware' saved [25381\/25381]<\/pre>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:~# sh \/tmp\/prep_optware<\/pre>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:~# reboot<\/pre>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:~# df -h\r\nFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\r\nrootfs 6.3M 6.3M 0 100% \/\r\n\/dev\/root 6.3M 6.3M 0 100% \/\r\n\/dev\/discs\/disc0\/part5 755M 360M 359M 51% \/opt<\/strong><\/pre>\n