Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:17 Post subject: MEGA vs VPN builds
So I was recently working on creating a Site-to-Site VPN between two routers by following instructions in the Wiki. One network is using a WRT54G as it's primary router and the other is using a WRT600N. Initially, the VPN wasn't working on the WRT600N's side. After a little bit of tinkering, I noticed that that calls to certain files didn't exist on the MEGA version, despite it's built-in VPN. I switched to the VPN version for the WRT600N and everything works flawlessly.
Of course, this swap also comes at a high price. The VPN version seems to have no support for attached USB drives, ProFTPd, and (consequently) disabled the Samba share.
Is there a way to get this configuration to work on a MEGA build?
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:32 Post subject: Re: MEGA vs VPN builds
Warwulf wrote:
So I was recently working on creating a Site-to-Site VPN between two routers by following instructions in the Wiki. One network is using a WRT54G as it's primary router and the other is using a WRT600N. Initially, the VPN wasn't working on the WRT600N's side. After a little bit of tinkering, I noticed that that calls to certain files didn't exist on the MEGA version, despite it's built-in VPN. I switched to the VPN version for the WRT600N and everything works flawlessly.
Of course, this swap also comes at a high price. The VPN version seems to have no support for attached USB drives, ProFTPd, and (consequently) disabled the Samba share.
Is there a way to get this configuration to work on a MEGA build?
What build?
Try BrainSlayer build of mega located here....not an Eko build.
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 14:56 Post subject:
redhawk0 is right, which build (Eko or Branslayer *AND* build number)? In addition, since you were "tinkering", which files did you notice were missing? It would seem more information is in order. _________________ E3000 22200M KongVPN K26
WRT600n v1.1 refirb mega 18767 BS K24 NEWD2 [not used]
WRT54G v2 16214 BS K24 [access point]
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*PLEASE* upgrade PAST v24SP1 or no support.
As far as calls to which files, I believe it couldn't find /usr/sbin/openvpn as well as not generating the /tmp/static.key and SiteA-SiteB.conf for some reason.
I have not given the BrainSlayer MEGA a try yet, and I wasn't aware of the differences between the two. The only real explanation that I found for the differences was that BrainSlayer's are the "Official" releases. I'll download the latest BrainSlayer SVN tonight and report back on the results.
I uploaded BrainSlayer's MEGA, specifically, this version:
DD-WRT v24-sp2 (07/18/09) mega
(SVN revision 12523)
The good news is that the VPN is still working and I get a ping response using the local IP of computers on the other network. The confusing thing is, I still can't find any of those files I mentioned before (which I had previously guessed was the cause of the VPN not working). Am I miss reading something? Or rather... what am I misunderstanding?
Let me know if you need any dumps of anything, I'll be happy to provide.
[EDIT] Disregard the bit about not finding those mentioned files after upgrading to SVN 12523. I had telnet'd into the wrong router.
