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After somehow totally borking my wifi the other day I have to reset it and all my custom configuration I had. So I decided to try and do a whole bunch of useful things in one go. I am writing this up live as I progress so it will be day 5 of my #100days project, and it will also serve as a reference incase I ever need to dig into my router settings again.
In my unique situation the first thing to do is switch my crappy ISP provided router into ONT mode which basically switches it off and just uses it to forward onto my own router via ethernet. So make a copy of any important settings or info from the basic router and then switch it into ONT mode.
Then with my own router is figure out what version I have and get the latest version of OpenWRT - I have a D-Link DIR-869. It supports both DD-WRT and OpenWRT but for some reason I didn't like DD-WRT so went with OpenWRT instead. In my case since I had installed it before, I had to use the upgrade image, even though I was starting from scratch. Remember that when resetting OpenWRT it is super secure by default and will only allow wired connections.
System β System - Set hostname & timezone
System β Administration - Setup a root password and install your ssh key
Network β Wireless - Setup a main network (probably on 2 radios) + a separate hidden network for smart home devices + country codes
Network β DHCP & DNS β Static Leases - Setup a bunch of static ips for your important devices that you want to talk to
Network β Firewall β Port Forwards - Here I set up a few different port forwarding rules to access my home server from outside the house
That's as far as I have managed to get today so looks like there will need to be a part 2 tomorrow, that goes over setting up dynamicDNS, a couple of extra modules and the all important backup feature.