[kwlug-disc] [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: OpenWRT

[CrankyOldBugger]

Great talk, Khalid!  I enjoyed that.  You got me thinking about a few
changes I could make to my own openWRT router.



On 12 August 2014 00:31, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> For those who want to review the slides, you can download the PDF of the
> presentation from here
>
>
> http://baheyeldin.com/technology/linux/presentation-openwrt-kwlug-august-2014.html
>
> In that link, you will also find a link to where you can download wrtbwmon
> (WRT Bandwidth Monitor).
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> It's August, which for many of us means it's time to head off to the
>> cottage. Maybe back in the 1950s you could go to the cottage without
>> your wifi, but these days canoeing without your laptop or telling
>> ghost stories without your email is gauche. But now it is 2007, and
>> mobile broadband is not ubiquitous yet, so you need a wireless router.
>> Enter the trusty Linksys WRT54GL...
>>
>> Oh wait. It's not 2007. It's 2014, and even though you probably use
>> your phone to check email[0]  on your phone, you might well have a
>> broadband connection someplace, and in 2014 the trusty old WRT54GL is
>> not cutting it. Now the wireless-N standard is ubiquitous[1], and
>> people have gigabit networks at home. Sure, some people just buy
>> whatever router is on sale at the local computer store[2], and use the
>> stock firmware to distribute their network signal. But what fun is
>> that? You can't run an OpenVPN endpoint or Asterisk server on stock
>> firmware. If you haven't noticed, though, wireless routers are
>> confusing! Some routers don't work well with third-party firmware.
>> Some routers do work well until the manufacturer changes the revision
>> and switches all the router internals? Where do you turn if you want a
>> solid, flashable router that supports modern standards?
>>
>> You turn to Khalid Baheyeldin, that's who. He went through the odyssey
>> of finding a router that would work well with the OpenWRT firmware in
>> 2014. Furthermore, he knows how to use his router to track the things
>> those of us with bandwidth caps care about: which devices are sucking
>> up the data? How can you see what processes are active at any given
>> time? Are there pretty graphs? In this presentation Khalid will tell
>> us all this and more. This presentation will start at 7pm.
>>
>> In other news, Software Freedom Day organizing is coming along.
>> This event will be held on Sept 20, from 10am-4pm. There will be
>> workshops on the Scratch programming language, installing security and
>> privacy tools in the post-Snowden era, and building your own Linux
>> machine. There are also plenty of presentations lined up, including
>> sessions on making a living with FLOSS and on the Open Access
>> publishing movement. You can find out more about the day at
>> http://kwlug.org/sfd , and you can offer to volunteer by contacting
>> me off-list. (We especially need volunteers to staff our installfest,
>> and to help with publicity.)
>>
>> And that's it. Now I need a vacation, but there is no rest for the
>> wicked, so attending a KWLUG meeting makes for a pretty good
>> substitute. Here is the location info:
>>
>> St John's Kitchen
>> 97 Victoria Street North
>> (at the corner of Victoria and Weber)
>> Kitchener
>>
>> Park your campers in the Worth A Second Look parking lot. Park your
>> touring bicycle along the side of the building. Find our
>> sunny destination at http://kwlug.org/sjk .
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> BONUS: Mean-spirited footnotes, courtesy of my inner critic:
>>
>> [0] Email? Who uses email?
>> [1] Ain't you ever heard of 802.11ac, grandpa?
>> [2] Local computer store? It's 2014! Bricks and mortar are so 20th
>> century!
>>
>> --
>> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
>>
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