Custom firmware for R7800 to extend its functionality

hello I do not understand my Nordvpn does not connect more via the router? you have an idea thank you

New version of my custom firmware build: 1.0.2.47SF.

Changes (vs 1.0.2.46SF):

1. Latest QoS DB is included into firmware (23 Oct 2017).
2. Disk mount scheme is changed to correct problems with folder browser in NETGEAR Downloader (reported by cordezz).
3. e2fsprogs package is upgraded 1.43.8->1.43.9.
4. ethtool package is upgaded 4.13->4.15.
5. libubox package is upgraded 2018-01-07->2018-02-08.
6. netatalk package is upgraded 2.2.1->2.2.6
7. Some "clip-art" changes in WebGUI.

The link is:

https://www.voxel-firmware.com

P.S. Voxel is still terribly busy, and there is no time to read and answer questions.
Thank you for understanding!!!

Hi,

I know people are busy here but I cannot figure out HFS+ disk issue.

I have read that router supports it  https://kb.netgear.com/24059/What-are-the-USB-drive-requirements-for-my-...

Basically I can read but cannot write. I am planning to use it with TimeMachine

Do you have any solution for that?

Thanks

By the way, let me clarify one thing about issue above about HFS+ disk.

1-If I connect to router via SSH, I can write and move some files via CLI under /mnt/..

2-If I connect to router via SMB or APT, I cannot write anything..

I presume the R7800 is included. 
That linked article says:

"This article applies to:

hello Voxel and everone else, popped .50 onto my R7800 first restart ssh stopped accepting my key figured maybe another reboot would clear it up but it went into bootloop. Never got a chance to read the logs. Cleared it up by putting .49 back on while in recovery mode. Havent tried to put .50 back on will do that later tonight but i had to redo my ssh from scratch to get it to work, all is fine now. Has there been any hiccups that anyone else has seen?

Hey Voxel, well i just tried to install the update 3 times including a fresh download. It boots becomes unresponsive then goes into a bootloop, and my ssh access is botched requiring me to do it from scratch. Cant get any logs after the update. Same problem as yesterday. I havent serialed into it yet cause of the warranty. Just curious if someother ppl might be experiencing something also.

oh and btw i understand what your saying about the backup and restore after a flash. I did that but the backup for some reason gets rejected from the server thats why i had to start over.

Hello,

I have troubles setting up the VPN client? With the previous version of the Voxel firmware everything works fine and I used the same *ovpn file. Is anybody aware of any issues? Does the new release improve the OVPN client, or is there no need to upgrade?

Thanks

Exactly what is the problem?
I have used exactly the same *.ovpn as before, and it worked as before.
Have you inserted the same USB-stick as before to install it?
Is the openvpn client started at all?
Can you log in to the router with e.g. telnet to makes some tests?
E.g. give the command: ps -w | grep vpn

Hello,

could someone let me the content of the file  ovpnclient-up.sh know? I modified the wrong file and I need the original one

Thanks

or get the original back with:
\cp -f /rom/etc/openvpn/ovpnclient-up.sh /etc/openvpn/ovpnclient-up.sh

Thank you kamoj. I tried yesterday with the new firmware and it worked for a moment. I added the excluded IPs in this file, and afterwards of course it did not work anymore

I will try again

Hello,

I took a look a the file and it is fine. I managed it to start the VPN. Could you please tell me which file needs to be changed for the Bypassing OpenVPN client tunnel. In the readme it is the /etc/openvpn/ovpnclient-up.sh. After the change the VPN does not work like I wrote yesterday

Could someone please post me the right file and the content?

OK, sure I can help - no problem, hope you get it working!
Try this file content:

#!/bin/sh

/sbin/ledcontrol -n wan -c green -s on

NO_VPN_LST="192.168.1.7 192.168.1.3"
WAN_GWAY=`ip route | awk '/^default/{print $3}'`
while [ $(ip route list table 200 default | grep "default" | wc -l) != "0" ]; do ip route del table 200 default 2>/dev/null; done
while [ $(ip route list table 200 | grep "default" | wc -l) != "0" ]; do ip route del table 200 2>/dev/null; done
while [ $(ip rule list | grep "lookup 200" | wc -l) != "0" ]; do ip rule del table 200 2>/dev/null; done
ip route flush cache
sleep 1
for excludeip in $NO_VPN_LST; do
[ $(ip rule list | grep "${excludeip} lookup 200" | wc -l) = "0" ] && ip rule add from ${excludeip} table 200
done
ip route add table 200 default via $WAN_GWAY dev `ip route | awk '/^default/{print $NF}'`
ip route flush cache
exit 0

Hi Voxel, Hi everyone,

my VPN service (NordVPN) now supports IPSec IKEv2 and I'm considering switching from OpenVPN to L2TP/IPSec IKEv2, because it's very secure, very fast (Netflix etc.) and has keepalive functionality.

Hi Voxel and all.  Thanks so much for creating this custom firmware!  I recently purchased an R7800 on sale and was disappointed to find the OpenVPN functionality was server only, so definitely appreciate the added OpenVPN client support!

I have been running into an issue, however, when using auth-user-pass in the OVPN config file.  When I leave "auth-user-pass" as-is in the ovpn file, openvpn-client start will work fine after prompting for credentials.  But when I include a credentials file, such as "auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/config/client/auth.txt" (and create auth.txt with the username and password) I get the following error when using openvpn-client start:

Please wait...

Error: OpenVPN client start failed.

/etc/rc.common: kill: 90: (3273) - No such process

Ugh, I'm dumb... False alarm.  There was actually a character from the username somehow missing once pasted with vi (but oddly wasn't missing when pasting it into the credentials prompt without using a cred file)  I didn't notice since the username is so randomized.

I have noticed something else though.  Even though I have set up /etc/dnscrypt.conf to use adguard-dns and have rebooted the router, I am getting tons of Google DNS leaks when using DNS leak tests at various sites.  At first I was using adguard-dns-ns1, adguard-dns-ns2, and cs-uswest per the recommendation in the readme to use 3-4 servers.  Then tried changing it to adguard-dns based on another forum post.  I ensured the router is set to use OpenDNS instead of the automatic ISP DNS.  This also happens with any browser, and happens after flushing DNS.  Is there any way to validate that dnscrypt is working, besides using DNS leak test?

Run:
ps w | grep dns

Thanks.  Tried this and confirmed adguard-dns wasn't working, but adguard-dns-ns1 and ns2 seem OK.  I checked another PC after changing it back to that setting and it appears to be working.

Hello Voxel,

Thank you for your hard work !! I just got a brand new R7800 and installed your firmware immediately. works perfectly

I was wondering if there would be a way to install a plex media server ?

I've seen it's available on Netgear Firmware for r9000, so assumed that would be possible (and not illegal ^^), even if the transcoding part would be unavailable/not advised 

Hi Voxel,

Is there a way to have multiple ssid? I searched entware package but I found nothing about creating multiple ssid.

I need it since I subscribed to triple play service and I need to create another ssid in which it will be used for connecting the STB to the particular ssid using VLAN. 

Or is there any alternative of doing this kind of thing to make the IPTV work using wireless?

I’m quite a noob at this stuff

Thanks