Istoreos

My N100 soft router was finally running a stable router OS – iStoreOS – within a Proxmox VE virtual machine. The core networking was solid. Now came the rewarding part: deploying the services I actually wanted and tackling the inevitable advanced troubleshooting challenges. AdGuard Home: Taming the DNS Loop Installing AdGuard Home (AGH) via the iStoreOS app store was straightforward. The initial setup wizard (:3000) guided me through setting ports. I changed AGH’s DNS port to :5353 to avoid conflict with iStoreOS’s built-in dnsmasq (running on :53). ...

My Proxmox VE (PVE) hypervisor was installed and the host networking configured on my N100 box. Now it was time to create the core component: the virtual machine that would act as my main home router. My initial plan was to use vanilla OpenWrt, the classic, highly customizable Linux distribution for routers. Act I: The Struggles with Vanilla OpenWrt Creating the VM in PVE (giving it VM ID 100) involved several steps: ...