Openwrt

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: ...

My quest for functional IPv6 hit a wall with the ISP’s faulty modem (ONT). Since I couldn’t get a proper Prefix Delegation (PD) from it, I needed a router capable enough to potentially handle the connection differently, perhaps even taking over PPPoE duties if necessary. My gaze fell upon a Netgear R8000 Nighthawk X6 collecting dust – a once-powerful router I had previously flashed with OpenWrt, only to seemingly “brick” it during a configuration mishap. Could this be its moment of redemption? ...