Hi all,
I just recently purchased the R7000P mostly because my kids figured out that to disable Circle for Disney all they have to do is unplug it. Bit harder when it's in the router. (evil grin)
Anyway, I'm finding that the stock firmware has some fairly significant limitations (apparently). Things like not being able to SSH into the router itself, unable to set a DNS suffix, or other DNS options, the ability to run scripts (in my case for updating DDNS on TunnelBroker), etc. etc. etc. I frankly find it very odd that I can't even resolve devices on the same router! (I assume because it's forwarding DNS instead of implementing a server).
OK, rant over :)
Question: I get limiting what's in the GUI, but is there any way to enable SSH or Telnet (eek!) to this router? Alternatively, I'm aware of a DD-WRT build for this, which to be honest is perfect, but I'm assuming I'd lose the Circle capability if I do that. Confirm/deny?
Thanks,
Dion
OK, I have partially answered my own question in that I found out about telnetenable, and have opened up the telnet connection to my router.
It'll take me a bit to digest everything that's here, but at first glance, it seems like I should be able to get some more advanced stuff working.
I also see the circle app here. I presume I could, in theory, move this to DD-WRT, but I'm guessing that would be a significant emotional event.
Any tips on getting started reconfiguring the stock firmware?
Hi all. Just bumping this. Still looking to see if running Circle on DD-WRT is feasible. I appreciate any insight...
Dion
Hi dionhouston, I'm not aware of any way to run the Circle functionality within DD-WRT -- it would have to be built in to a DD-WRT build by one of the community developers out there.
It looks like Circle does utilize some open source/GPL code, but also some non-GPL elements.
https://support.meetcircle.com/13577-general-help/circle-gpl-source-code
Thanks for the tip... Yeah I kinda thought maybe being proprietary software it wouldn't be available for DD-WRT very easily.
As it turns out, I think it was a user headspace issue. At the same time I was testing this, I switched ISPs, and my new ISP doesn't natively support IPv6 so I set up a tunnel. I forgot (maybe all modern browsers) prefer IPv6 over IPv4, so my traffic was going over a tunnel of course much slower. IPv6 I used just to give me direct access to my network from my cell, it's just as easy for me to use VPN and probably more secure anyway...
Anyway, I turned it off and I'm going to give it a few days to call it officially good, but maybe I'll just leave the stock firmware on. Circle is really nice. The whole no DNSMASQ thing is super annoying, but I've worked around it by putting in real DNS records for my local ip addresses into my DDNS service.