Monthly Archives: March 2010

OpenWRT and Ubuntu dnmasq setup

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Bill Thorsteinson

Now I have replaced my old firewall with OpenWRT, I needed to enhance the configuration of dnsmasq to support the network.  The old Ubunutu based firewall was already running dnsmasq, as does the DNS server on the LAN. I run … Continue reading →

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OpenWRT syslog-ng Installation

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Bill Thorsteinson

When I went to process my remote firewall log output from OpenWRT, I noticed that the entries were truncated.  A quick check with tcpdump indicated that the syslog packets were truncated to 256 characters.  As syslogd and klogd are both … Continue reading →

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