The following commands can help you test the performance of your CPU under OpenWrt, especially the encryption and decryption performance, and can provide a performance reference when you use VPN. Below is the benchmark score of my OpenWrt CPU: Intel N4200.
WireGuard is officially supported in the Unraid 6.8+ version. With the free DDNS provider Duck DNS, you can quickly and freely access resources at home through WireGuard VPN, which is very convenient. I won’t write the tutorial, because Unraid posted a great blog, you can follow the tutorial provided by Unraid to set up your WireGuard. Official Blog URL: https://unraid.net/blog/wireguard-on-unraid The general idea here is to use DuckDNS as DDNS, then create a WireGurad profile and add a peer to…
Today I found a very good tool (Free and Open Source) to create bootable USB drives for multiple operating systems, it calls Ventoy. As a computer geek, you may need to install different operating systems on the computer. Traditionally, if we’re going to create a Linux or Windows boot drive, we need to write the ISO image to the USB stick once. Every time we change the system, we write the USB drive again. Doing so not only hassles, but…
If you don’t have a vauild Proxmox VE subscription, you will not able to run any APT related command such as apt update, upgrade, install and so on. This blog will show you how to jump over this limit on Proxmox VE. First, login the Proxmox VE console and go the the shell, then run the follwing command. Then, add # to comment out the enterprise list, click Ctrl + X and Y to save your change. Then run the…
Hello, As we all know, OpenWrt is a well-known open source router system, and Unraid is also a well-known three-in-one system of NAS, virtual machine, and docker. Both systems have many users. In this post, I will show you how to run OpenWrt as a virtual machine in Unraid. First of all, we need to download the x86_64 image from the OpenWrt official website. Here I choose the 19.07 version. If you have the ability to compile your own OpenWrt…
During my use of OPNsense, I wanted to do port forwarding for my LibreSpeed speed test tool, but after some searching, I couldn’t find any helpful resources and tutorials about OPNsense, so I decided to write a simple tutorial here to help you configure OPNsense port forwarding. First, let’s go to Firewall -> NAT -> Port Forward. Then click Add button at the top right corner. Secondly, change the Destination to WAN address since we want to access LibreSpeed from…
Since OpenWrt only offer IMG file for installation, and Proxmox VE only take ISO file. So we have to use the command line to import IMG file into the virtual machine in order to use OpenWrt as a VM in PVE. Step 1. Preparation Proxmox VE: you can download from here. OpenWrt 19.07: Download the x86_64 firmware from here. Download combined-squashfs.img.gz then unzip it to IMG file. Step 2. Creating the virtual machine Login to your PVE web interface then…
To change the IP address of your OpenWRT router, you could edit it through the SSH or plug the keyboard and monitor to your custom build router. Step 1: type in vi /etc/config/network in your console, then press ENTER Step 2: Press “i” on your keyboard to enable edit mode, then change the IP address to whatever you want. Step 3: Press “Esc” key, type :wq (w means write, q means quit), then press ENTER to apply. Last Step: type…
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today (June 24) officially released the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Raspberry Pi is a world-renowned basic computing microcomputer, which is highly sought after by developers, programmers, geeks and other people around the world. This generation of Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been developed for 3 years. The memory (RAM) has been upgraded from 1GB to 4GB. The introduction of USB 3.0 supports dual-screen 4K output, and the CPU and GPU are faster. H.265 decoding….
Have you ever known where the charm or power of Linux comes from? That is, because of the numerous distributions, the Linux camp is growing, and each distribution has a large number of users. Developers voluntarily invest in related projects. Linux distributions can be described in a variety of ways, and they are designed to meet every desired demand. This article is intended to give a brief account of why a distribution exists, what the target users of the distribution…