Jim

On a SSD/HDD or a flash drive?

Idea: Find a reasonably large flash drive for the downloads. Would that work or be too slow?

And if I don't install the OPKG files to an external drive?

Though I am not an expert on this, I think that the topology you've suggested is a can of worms waiting to happen. Not the least of which is the danger of the first ISP trying to talk to the second ISP as a client, and vice versa. If I assume that the reason for the connection is to increase bandwidth, many routers, Keenetic among them, support using multiple ports, usually the ISP port and the first LAN port, as ISP network connection points. Though I have never tried this, I am assuming that the ISP network connections can be configured independently.

I posted this on Stack Exchange at Should I even THINK about upgradng packages in OpenWRT?, and didn't receive any reasonable answer as the majority of the answers boiled down to "it depends", so I am asking it here. ==================== Ref: The related posting at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/400231/how-do-i-upgrade-all-of-my-installed-packages-in-openwrt Note that, though I am not new to Linux per se, I AM new to OpenWRT, especially as applied to routers and such like. The referenced article, along with this article on the OpenWRT web page, (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg#upgrading_packages), indicates that mass upgrades are potentially dangerous, almost to the point of "Don't even THINK of running e2fsck on a mounted partition" severity - and other sections indicate that individual updates themselves can be a dicey matter. However, the comments within the original post referenced above vary widely - ranging from "just don't" to others who say that updates are an important part of maintaining system security. My original assumption, (based on previous "big package" Linux experience), is that package maintainers have a responsibility to ensure that package updates will successfully update an existing package - and if there's a significant incompatibility and/or dependency change, it should be a different, (though related), package. So, what's the truth of this? Maybe I should just stick with the stock functionality of my router instead of opening the can of worms that is OpenWRT? ================== Any comments and guidance would be gratefully appreciated.

Ahhh! The telnet port was set to "21". Setting it to 23 fixed the telnet problem. Onward and Upward!

Greetings! One of the interesting features of this router is that it is extremely configurable. So much so that I am beginning to wonder which Linux distribution it's based on! 😉 One feature is the ability to add additional functionality via both the web interface and Open Packages. 1. How do I know how much of my router's memory is available for use? 2. How full is "too full"? (How much "headroom" should I leave?) 3. Where do I find these Open Packages? 4. How will I know if a particular package is compatible with my router? 5. The OPKG package manager configuration page asks for an "initrc script". What should I provide? Thanks! P.S. I found this: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg It seems both useful and gnarly.

Of course. 🤪😉 It is connected via an Ethernet cable through a dumb switch. Neither a hard wired nor WiFi connection will connect. My wife's computer, (which is directly connected to the router itself via an Ethernet cable), also fails. I'm sure there's some setting somewhere that I set, (or failed to set), that causes this. Also. . . . All these devices are "registered".

Greetings! Router: Keenetic Giga (KN-1012) EAEU System: Linux Mint 22.3 I have been trying to establish a SSH connection to my Keenetic router but I keep getting "Connection Refused". I found and installed the SSH module and rebooted the router. Research indicates that I have to issue certain specific commands via the "command line interface", (telnet) to activate it. The instructions indicate that telnet is enabled by default and that I should open a telnet connection to the IP address of the router - which opens the router's CLI. Unfortunately, telnet also returns "connection refused". Every solution I searched for cycles back to needing the CLI to enable/change things, but I have to do something to enable the CLI so that I can change things to enable the CLI to enable things to enable. . . . Etc. I've installed putty on my system and I've also tried via a Linux terminal window. Neither SSH nor telnet can connect; both return "connection refused". Update: Using putty installed on Windows 10, both telnet and SSH also return "connection refused". What am I missing? Jim