This article will show you how to configure a basic network with WiFi Bridging, DHCP on a fresh install of OpenWrt – with explanations and screenshots. This guide follows on from LinuxScrew’s guide to setting up OpenWrt on a BT HomeHub 5 – but you can… Read More »OpenWrt: Set up a Basic Network Including WiFi Bridge, IP Address, DHCP
This article will show you a quick and clean way of getting secure DNS over TLS running on OpenWRT – without resorting to the command line. If follows on from our other OpenWrt Articles. We’ll be using stubby – a local DNS resolver that will encrypt local… Read More »OpenWRT: Secure DNS over TLS with LuCI [No Command Line]
This article will show you how to keep your devices separate on your OpenWRT managed network and follows the steps taken to set up a basic WiFi network covered here. Why would you want to keep your devices from talking to each other on a local… Read More »Segregating Devices and Networks in OpenWrt [Tutorial]
If you’ve recently updated your network configuration or just can’t get things to connect, you may need to restart the networking services on your Ubuntu System to get things back up and running. Restarting the network is particularly useful if you’re recently updated your WiFi… Read More »Restarting the Network in Ubuntu [Instructions/Example]
This article will show you how to change the hostname for your Linux device (Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, or RedHat). The methods below should work for the vast majority of current and obsolete Linux Distributions. What is the Hostname? The hostname of a device on the network is the… Read More »How to Change the Hostname in Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, RedHat)
This article documents my success in getting the OpenWrt operating system up and running on a BT HomeHub 5A (also sold as the Plusnet Hub One). This was checked with the latest version of OpenWRT as of early 2021, so it’s up to date and ready… Read More »Installing OpenWrt on a BT HomeHub 5 (or Plusnet Hub One), Full Instructions
If you followed our article on how to SSH to your Raspberry Pi so that you can control it over a network, you might be tired of having to run the commands to find out what its current IP address is on your network. Most networks assign… Read More »Setting a Static IP Address on a Raspberry Pi [With Screenshots]
This article aims to familiarise you with IP addresses and subnets and the calculations involved when setting them up. It’s a big topic, so this article will try to stay focused on its practical side to help get you on the right track and subnetting… Read More »Calculating IP Addresses and Subnets – A Reference
When your computer acts as a server, such as a web server or a database server, that server process must listen on a port that other computers connect to. It’s useful to be able to find out what ports are open on your Linux server should… Read More »How to Easily Check if a Network Port is Open in Linux
The ifconfig command is obsolete, and you should no longer use it! This tutorial covers the ip command, which you should use in place of ifconfig. Here’s how to use the ip command instead. The ip command can do a bunch of other stuff as well, but we’ll focus… Read More »STOP Using the Linux ifconfig Command [Here’s Why]