{"id":2679,"date":"2011-02-14T01:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2011-02-11T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T21:04:59","slug":"openwrt-on-mikrotik-metarouter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"OpenWRT On Mikrotik Metarouter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of running a lite linux server on your Mikrotik router is quite appealing.  I can think of many uses: Asterisk PBX, lite web server, haproxy load balancer.<\/p>\n<p>Mikrotik&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mikrotik.com\/wiki\/Manual:Metarouter\">documentation is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mikrotik was kind enough to compile and patch a version of OpenWRT, though there seems to be little documentation otherwise.  I made a quick video on getting it loaded, changing the password and changing the IP\/routing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"media\">\n            <object id=\"csSWF\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/classes\/mtk-openwrt\/openwrt_controller.swf\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#1a1a1a\"\/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showall\"\/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"autostart=false\"\/><embed name=\"csSWF\" src=\"\/classes\/mtk-openwrt\/openwrt_controller.swf\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" bgcolor=\"#1a1a1a\" quality=\"best\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" scale=\"showall\" flashVars=\"autostart=false&#038;thumb=FirstFrame.png&#038;thumbscale=45&#038;color=0x000000,0x000000\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object>\n        <\/div>\n<p><strong>Configuration Files<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">\/etc\/config<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Service Commands<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">\/etc\/init.d<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/sources\/\">List of source files.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/docs\/buildroot-documentation.html\">Page on how to build the the above source for your router.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have time for much these days, otherwise I would do some compiling and testing.  If you guys have precompiled files you would like to send my way, or if you have a repository somewhere, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of running a lite linux server on your Mikrotik router is quite appealing. I can think of many uses: Asterisk PBX, lite\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}