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 a mixed network with wired and wireless clients on separate address ranges. DHCP services are… Continue reading OpenWRT and Ubuntu dnmasq setup
Month: March 2010
OpenWRT syslog-ng Installation
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 provided by BusyBox, I decided to replace them both. The obvious solution was to replace… Continue reading OpenWRT syslog-ng Installation