The_Ogre
Honorary Master
So I found an old router and decided to flash it with RouterTech firmware. My aim is to connect it to my main (ADSL) router so that I can create a secure tunnel and connect to it over the internet.
Firstly, because its more secure when connecting to it via wifi in public places and secondly so I can connect to it via SSH from work and redirect all my traffic through it because I recently found out my work logs pretty much all your internet activity. Also half the damn internet is blocked from work
For those who want to give it a shot, the router is one of those el-cheapo Telkom DuoPlus 300WR routers.
At first I battled for over two hours to get it to flash the firmware via the web GUI, but every time it would boot back into the old firmware.
I finally realised that this damn thing is a rebranded Solwise SAR-605EW, but couldn't find the orignal firmware on Solwise's site.
I then noticed an Australian company rebranded the same router as Aztech. So I downloaded the firmware from there and flashed it. So, now I got past the first hurdle.
Then, still using the web GUI, I battled for a further what seemed like eternity to get it to complete the flashing of the RouterTech firmware. I finally managed to get it right using an app, connect via telnet and flashing it that way (actually I had to con the app to think that I am repairing the image)
So now I have the firmware installed and all looked great. This was at 23:30 last night, so I went to bed. This morning when I got up I fiddled with it for about 30 minutes, but got frustrated because it didn't save the IP I want to assign to it.
I want to assign it 10.0.0.20, 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 10.0.0.2 (my main router), but after I save the config and restart it reverts back to 192.168.1.1.
Anybody went through this before?
Firstly, because its more secure when connecting to it via wifi in public places and secondly so I can connect to it via SSH from work and redirect all my traffic through it because I recently found out my work logs pretty much all your internet activity. Also half the damn internet is blocked from work
For those who want to give it a shot, the router is one of those el-cheapo Telkom DuoPlus 300WR routers.
At first I battled for over two hours to get it to flash the firmware via the web GUI, but every time it would boot back into the old firmware.
I finally realised that this damn thing is a rebranded Solwise SAR-605EW, but couldn't find the orignal firmware on Solwise's site.
I then noticed an Australian company rebranded the same router as Aztech. So I downloaded the firmware from there and flashed it. So, now I got past the first hurdle.
Then, still using the web GUI, I battled for a further what seemed like eternity to get it to complete the flashing of the RouterTech firmware. I finally managed to get it right using an app, connect via telnet and flashing it that way (actually I had to con the app to think that I am repairing the image)
So now I have the firmware installed and all looked great. This was at 23:30 last night, so I went to bed. This morning when I got up I fiddled with it for about 30 minutes, but got frustrated because it didn't save the IP I want to assign to it.
I want to assign it 10.0.0.20, 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 10.0.0.2 (my main router), but after I save the config and restart it reverts back to 192.168.1.1.
Anybody went through this before?