If you have neglected to upgrade your OpenWrt router from an older version (such as 15.x) to the latest 19.x release, there are manual steps that must be taken to ensure persistence of any custom configurations and package installations. This article will take you through a manual sysupgrade to 19.x. The reason we are upgrading … OpenWrt: upgrading from older OpenWrt versions to 19.x
You should always have a backup of the main configuration settings of your OpenWrt device. A single change via LuCI or from the console can leave you with questions on what changed and how to get back to your original working condition. In this article, I’ll show you how to archive your main configuration settings, … OpenWrt: Archive router configs for backup
Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale. It supports multiple infrastructure platforms (EC2, VMware, OpenStack), and is able to standardize deployment, logging, scaling, and routing in a way that is friendly to a continuous delivery pipeline. In this series of articles, we will use the spring-music web application … CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application
Update Jan 2023: I have written an updated article on doing a sysupgrade from older OpenWrt versions to 19.x. If you want to do an in-place sysupgrade of a 19.x or earlier snapshot, use the instructions from the newer article, but selecting a snapshot image instead of a stable release image. Although stables releases of … OpenWrt: Upgrading OpenWrt to the latest snapshot build
When flashing an OpenWrt image to your newer versioned WRT1900AC/S, be aware that instead of using ‘setenv firmware_name’, you should instead use ‘setenv firmwareName’. The command will not fail, but the router will not understand that it should look for a non-default name for the image and your tftp transfer will fail. This change appears … OpenWrt: Use setenv firmwareName for newer versions of Linksys WRT1900AC/S
Whether you are updating the official LinkSys router firmware or taking it a step further and installing open-source firware like OpenWrt, serial level access to your Linksys router is the most dependable way of guaranteeing a connection. And if you have tried to flash the firmware via the web admin interface and after a reboot … Ubuntu: Serial level access to your Linksys WRT1X00AC/S