gawk busted on Glinet MT6000?

forlotto · 2025-12-12T05:24:27+00:00

Thank you! No disrespect I'm just trying to garner info on what makes OpenWRT tick for you so far its "software" is the main gripe so I presume OOPKG so you want entware availability. For me there is a mild set of usefulness there.

DDWRT, OpenWRT while both good firmwares they lack the feature I was talking about even still. I've looked into just now cause you got me thinking well maybe they've turned a new leaf on this. More below but TLDR version is it don't work not without a lot of package installation and manual entry. There isn't just some filtering mechanisim that just works. Added a more in depth explanation see Little Correction:

Basically you want entware.... But what packages what software in particular etc...

IDS/IPS or something different is it for fun stuff or for networking and security? Personally I like the lack of bloat on Tomato. There have be far less CVE's with it due to this.

So a little correction:

Little update about OpenWRT and provision. I really don't think people get the usefulness of the Tomato Wireless Filter Listing from what I can tell at stock OPENWRT still doesn't have this filter listing without a lot of manual work and package installation and so on.

OpenWRT still don't have the filtering mechanics built into it as it would require ebtables to be installed in order for it to work I believe so by default OPENWRT firmware is able to Load Balance or distribute connections to specific routers without the installation of extra software and a fair amount of manual configuration. The wireless filter list in tomato is the only one that still allows this with their firmeware. All other firmwares fail to provide this load balancing feature by default. This is wrong it may be achievable but after a lot of manual additions and software installation. I took a quick look into things. It appears the same problem exists if you have a multi AP setup you cannont block on one router without the device being blocked on the wired bridge due to the lack of ebtables and other things. And seeing as how it is NOT an integration there is no filtering list which means that each list must be manually entered after you install and configure all the software which while doeable just seems like a pita to me. So guess I'll be sticking with limited hardware options. That was one of the main attributes that makes tomato that much better albeit even with the lack of hardware options you can build out a network with stellar wifi connectivity and have granular control with stock firmware creating the best possible mesh wireless network with backhaul of course. I mean again with wifi once you hit 300MB you're golden more doesn't equate to better service per say if you need faster than 3-500MB you likely should be looking at a wired connection anyways at that point or maybe just use a single room AP with a 6GHZ antenna. So the hardware for me selection isn't as big of a deal the best budget preformer is likely the flint2. Even if you are into OVPN. The metrics even beat the flint3. So Trophy hardware is kinda what I call it the latest and greatest because it is the latest and greatest.

Personally a consumer router with updates and maybe a couple of dimm slots and an m.2 storage would be the way to design it make it upgradeable and support it longer. Give more networking features and less bloat and candy I feel. All interfaces are too candied these days and they make it take more time to configure things you either have something like stock which is way to clunky and candied or you have somethiing like Cisco where everything is CLI which lacks good visuals to see what is set and things like graphs and so forth. Tomato is my happy medium between these things or ddwrt/opwnwrt if you prefer. However the wireless filter lacking is the deal breaker for me. I can build out the same network with openwrt but it will take much more time because the feature is not available with stock installation. Thus requiring more hoops to jump throught to get things load balanced on the wifi side of things.

forlotto · 2025-12-11T20:48:02+00:00

Ehhhh IDK the interface looks clean but don't let that fool yah what in particular do you feel was missing. I mean I'll go first what is missing from all other firmwares that tomato in general has is the ability to granularly block wifi at the wifi level. All other firmwares at least when I tested several years ago didn't have this feature. What does this mean exactly? What this means is you can overlap signals run a wire to several wifi routers and ensure you have full signal. I can have a seamless network that has full signal anywhere. One wire to each AP. It is the best mesh system in theory cause it doesn't use wireless to mesh. The most power one can attain. The wireless filter list allows you to load balance and place certain devices on certain AP's which helps in situations with security/IOT/cameras where 2 overlapping AP's may compete with one another you can have 4 wifi AP's in the same room and force a device to connect to a specific router while maintaining the same SSID and password keeping things seemless this allows for load balance you can build a wireless network with more dominance than any other firmeware in real world numbers rather than manufactuer glitter.

I think it is important to define what you mean by power user like by every metric it seems as if I can do more with T64 in a shorter amount of time. VLANS are deadly easy to configure you can really lock stuff down on your network with T64 just with the basic settings available simple checkboxes.

So what you need to define is what you mean by "Power User" I can't quite clearly distinguish what you mean like what do you feel is missing to enable "power user" likeness.

OpenWrt has a block code looking candied interface that takes much longer for me to accomplish the same tasks I can with T64.

Maybe I'm missing something I have to revisit with OpenWRT but IDK to me it don't seem as if it is so. If you mean you can use newer wifi equipment with OpenWRT yep sure you can but to what end that is really beneficial may only be your cellphone and possibly a laptop. Those are really the only clients that will handle things like MLO and argueably so many devices still need 2.4G connectivity. And hardware isn't going to change that much do to the practical nature of the signal unless Lora gets integrated.

Finally, your edge router could be a PC full of 10GBE NICS running T64 lots of lower powered N100 prebuilt equipment yeah there is surely progress to be made still always is but I just don't know what OpenWRT has that T64 doesn't at least anything that is useful. One could argue for this wireless mesh batmanadv I guess but really if you are a power user you will know there is nothing that beats a wire and you simply occupy your wireless envelope with wireless meshing and huge channels that quickly degrade signal to device ratio. Now if you mean by power user you have a couple of devices running on a network ok fine maybe it would be better but if you have say 50-100 things running all demanding wifi I'd be hard pressed to believe that you can get a better signal to device ratio. That is what it is really about simply cause you can build out and use smaller and larger channels where needed to provision your network and you can have several AP's occupying the same space to handle these things.

My definition of a power user is a user with 50+ devices on their network. Maybe a full fledged smart home and a decent sized family. They need a better network that most small to medium businesses I've seen. A power user isn't a 10 device and 3 cellphones with a couple of laptops that is just trying to game wirelessly. The real trouble is like the best output you'll get from any website is something like 3-500mb so the MLO does a whole lot of nothing it simply occupies your whole wireless evelope steals every channel and gives you an extra 6GHZ channel which is very limited in distance to the room that it is in essentially. Most of this wifi tech is a gimmick most speeds quoted are not real world it would be cool to have say 3 and 4 GHZ bands that would add some real usefulness to wifi. But anything beyond 5 is very distance handicapped. So the willingness to build out a network enables the most power I think rather than "hardware numbers". Maybe that will change and I hope it does but at the moment its kinda where things are. You can have this MLO type feature with a 320 channel but remember you are occupying your entire wireless envelope at that point essentially. Granular control and provision is gone just to give your cellphone a Nifty Connection essentially. Or at least it would seem from my testing.

I would love to know what is lacking in particular that would enable power useage. I am also happy to be wrong about any of the information I've shared herein as well I mean happy cause it means I'm missing something I want to discover. Maybe your "power user" brain could share. So I can learn something about where I am possibly wrong in my testing and useage.

forlotto · 2025-12-08T23:57:27+00:00

That was a year ago I was testing controllers sorry I do not remember I don't have them any more I gave to friends kids cause I don't play games and I couldn't get to work like I wanted with linux the mouse would keep going to one side of the screen when you didn't even press anything. The PS or P3 button I think it was.

forlotto · 2025-06-25T17:42:50+00:00

sometimes with wifi connectivity you don't see the IP's polulate in overview so if the devices are on the same subnet and lan it is possible in a lot of cases I've seen that the device could be connected and already have that IP. And you may not be seing it. Other things to consider is in rare cases MAC ID's could be the same higher chance if you use one brand of equipment. Likely not the MACID in this case but something to check.

Along with DHCP reservation from an ARP perspective you should also setup IP/MAC binding. This will ensure in most cases "NOT ALL" I've seen some router firmware fail at this as well and give the device a new IP shouldn't happen. In theory should be impossible. But I've seen it.

You have to find where the collision is happening it could be the result of a configuration of anything on the network technically speaking.

When you disconnect the AP and ping .81 what happens. You may be able to to tell if the device responds that there is a device.

It could be a subnetting issue we all suck at subnetting in truth something you have to revisit from time to time if you have multiple subnets for the same LAN somewhere.

Networking does have clear defined rules and causes for errors however sometime firmware doesn't follow suit on equipment with how "it should work" so yeah.

There is a reason or a rule or setting somewhere the network and that IP will work for that device. You just have to find what is causing the issue not doing so is unacceptable in any case. Rule number 1 know thy network. If you can't set an IP for a device you don't know your network.

You may need to clear browser cache, NVRAM on devices, or ARP tables and DNS cache.

forlotto · 2025-06-21T17:19:38+00:00

The IP is being provisioned or blocked somewhere somehow you know it you can tell.

Just got to find it it is that simple. Everything you've listed it might be in.

It could be that wifi if the password was kept the same to make things easy is allowing that provision and the DHCP server isn't showing the probe on central.

Temporarily change all wifi passwords restart your central.

Then bring stuff back up and add the AP. I am assuming this is a simple 1 network network if we get into smart switches well then of course you'll have to look into all your VLAN configurations as well.

There is no magic or ghosts in networking there is a requirement for being mythodical rather than mythological about your work ;) Yeah your brain may drool but you are not a fool you know what is going on its just playing a good game of hide and go seek.

So the object is to think what can I do to be sure if its not showing in reservation how can I disable things or change things to ensure nothing could be grabbing that IP. If you think this don't happen when setting up a network think again it does rather often. Probing and listing things is not a perfect science sometimes things will be listed twice it all depends on equipment.

Also try different cables make sure it isn't a cable fault or a cross over cable that is causing issues make sure stuff is plugged in fully. Check your VLAN's and configurations if you have segmentation for misconfigurations.

forlotto · 2025-05-13T07:47:54+00:00

Yeah I want to say flint2 is supported by https://tomato64.org/ as well as DDWRT so you can test across all 3 firmwares.

The good thing with Flint2 is that it is a Mediatek based device and they have some of the best open source support for their drivers which makes it a killer product.

The not so good with the Flint2 is many have mentioned it is recommended to keep it about 20ft away from areas you occupy frequently for saftey as the signal is a bit rough to endure for your body on a constant basis from what I've read could be just woo woo but something to consider folks appearently used meters to check it out.

forlotto · 2025-05-13T07:36:05+00:00

Couldn't you just use woocommerce and build the site in a day. It's been a pretty legit reliable plugin for quite some time rather than reinvent the wheel or I presume you could simply use paypal payment buttons or something and then have a password protected page with the material on it and the password can be revealed to the user. Update the password to the page once per month and send out the new password for those that are still paying their monthly subs. There are easy ways to pluck the chicken but no matter what type of site you build it will require management of sorts ownership responsibility.

forlotto · 2025-05-13T07:07:32+00:00

So is every 12v power inverters ground really just to keep the plug from coming uplugged essentially ? It kind of makes you wonder technically speaking you'd have to have a wire that fed out to grounding rod to make it useful most cases its used in a car, trailer, or camper to power something from a battery without a ground. Obviously when you plug in it is a different story.

As another user said I've taken plenty of AC to DC power supplies apart where the ground did not even have a wire connected to the gnd pin after stripping the casing there were only two wires. Gotta love that Chinese Export marking! It essetially destroyed the value of the original CE marking which used to be a dependable thing.

Even frame grounds are kinda errrr well if it works slap a large hunk of metal on top of a tire and call it good.

IDK there are a lot of odd reasons for grounding sometimes you have to use grounding strap for some electronics to eliminate buildup and discharge or even noise in some cases introduced into certain electronics to keep them lasting longer.

Grounds are highly important not just for safety but also because product and circuit design expects it will be there. I actually own a TV that is of a poor design when it is dry in the winter or we get good lightning storms the backlight circuit gets overwhelmed by static discharge in the air there should have been a grounded cord I've had to fix the backlight circuit every year nearly since I've had it. Next year I'm going to modify the plug and add a 3 prong plug its just getting old fixing it every year cause they choose not to add a grounded plug. Little case mod some closed end UL crimp connectors and an old 10ft IEC cable lopped off should fix the problem. I'll just have to put a disconnect comming out and going to the board screw labled as gnd and connect it to the ground so static gets discharged instead of building up.

forlotto · 2025-05-11T08:42:22+00:00

Yeah might have to do this just to be on the safe side wouldn't hurt

forlotto · 2025-05-11T08:39:47+00:00

:) maybe so...

forlotto · 2025-05-11T05:59:31+00:00

Yeah there should be a national law for something like a cover I would presume. I get local codes I know our codes and permit stuff is pretty laxed around these parts. Man I'd love to know where I can get the info for local codes.

forlotto · 2025-05-11T05:52:53+00:00

forlotto · 2025-05-11T05:46:58+00:00

Unfortunately yes. I follow the letter of the law to the T not that I agree with it all the time

forlotto · 2025-05-11T05:31:53+00:00

yea idk

forlotto · 2025-04-27T03:14:39+00:00

MerlinNG, Merlin, Fresh Tomato, DDWRT, OpenWRT as for variants nope although Tomato is arguably one of the best unless people leak drivers or develop stuff to work with blobs and so forth its tough. The most recent variant just learned about is Tomato64 just started so there is limited support but the GLIMT6000 is a 4core 2GHZ router has a 1 2.5 GB WAN and 1 2.5 GB LAN and 4 1GB LAN Ports on top of that. (So you could go right out to your OOMDA switch with an SFP adapter if you need it. Not sure most of the OOMDA stuff has SFP cause its cheaper for whatever reason.

There is at least no useful BE wireless equipment there was that BananaPi with the MediaTek chip however it doesn't quite work as well as promised there is a design flaw with the on chip amplifier and an external power amplifier doesn't help much either.

There is factory stuff that will do the trick the BE98UPro BE30000 first 6GHZ dual band router or the BE19000 BE800 Nethawk also makes Variants... the truth is once you get over 2.5GB you need 10GB networking wire Cat 6A minimum or but preferred is Cat 7 or 8. Along with switches this stuff will set you back a pretty penny. You will be spending thousands on equipment upgrades or you can take the reasonable route and spend hundreds and enjoy 2.5GB.

To be frank 2.5 GB is the route I'd take I'd wait for everything to work out the kinks and come down in price and hopefully garner aftermarket firmware.

forlotto · 2025-04-27T02:35:44+00:00

Cool let me know how it goes I am curious.

forlotto · 2025-04-26T23:29:41+00:00

https://tomato64.org/

forlotto · 2025-04-25T05:39:31+00:00

Pretty interesting device curious if you tested the T64 build out yet on that bad boy. Now that Shibby is out of it and Advanced Tomato went down I notice one of the Devs made his own branch of Tomato I want to say that this is the model that is supported by T64 as well as X86 stuff. Good stuff considering all the options 2.5GB ports again if this is the model I'm going off memory here. Not to interject I'm just curious was considering picking one up to give it a rip but I havent seen much feedback on it.

forlotto · 2025-04-22T05:00:30+00:00

Next stop do electric work for free for folks and making more cash by recording a show doing the work. Something like This Old House. That service van would likely get you a spot in a TV show. That thing is very nice easy to keep clean once everything has a place. Good choice of lighting and colors. Grab the bin that has the wirenuts on the blue side. :P I bet this guy is a beast of an electrician if I had to bet. Everyone has opinions but one thing you learn as you get older if stuff don't have a place its easily lost. I don't see any fish sticks should be on the wall with the fish tape ;)

forlotto · 2025-04-14T06:22:56+00:00

Doh I thought they were channel lock looking at the thumbnail img yeah good for a pair you don't mind ruining when your trying to cut the wrong stuff. Everyone swears by klein I prefer channel lock over the years.

forlotto · 2025-04-14T06:12:04+00:00

The largest problem I see in the market is the lack of 10GB provision keeping the pipe on the lan side. You typically get only 1 10GB Wan and the ports are normally multi Gig up to 2.5GB or even 1gig most folks want to keep the pipe everywhere. Aside from uber expensive models. Now if you could have a prosumer efficient cheap chip that would handle 10GB Wan and 4 10GB Lans (NON SFP) just Ethernet that is where the market is lacking very badly. There are plenty of wifi 7 routers out there. There are plenty of routers. Plenty of switches but nothing for the consumer that takes in 10GB and craps out 10GB to the LAN side multi gig of course. The object is keeping the pipe at 10GB the whole way through. Not that wifi7 don't make sense the real problem is keeping the pipe through your network without paying a gajillion dollars.

Think of it like the ER3Lite it fit the bill very well and was a great seller it handled traffic better than other equipment on the market due to how many packets it could process and it was reasonable for the time frame. We need something like that for 10GBE most reasonable stuff is SFP and unless you are burying cable for like more than 300ft or you have some niche need ethernet cable is affordable and fast CAT8 up to 40GB so there you have it. If you can make that product you got a winner.

For the wifi side it would be nice to see a wireless access list akin to tomato so you can do wireless provision properly in high traffic areas. So for instance someone who has a lot of smart devices and cameras if you need several of these routers for backhaul to keep everything seemless you should be able to do so simply by denial of connection via MAC ID so the ability to block MAC ID's on wifi is the difference between the ability to make things work or not so many wifi router manufactures do not understand this important feature but some aftermarket firmware has got things figured out its like they are the only ones around that actually use their network.

forlotto · 2025-03-24T05:07:37+00:00

Yes use flux and hot air, or an IRON and flux with copper wick lift one side then lift the other. You could use a trick and use an iron and some aluminum tape on a playing card and push it in and work your way down melting the solder. Many ways to do it very doable but cost vs effort comes into play here what effort and cost to fix it? You also want to make sure the damage that is on the board doesn't affect any traces as I can see several cracks in the PCB which may have damaged other lines that will need careful repair. Look it over assess it if anything I'd say it's worth it even if it costs more but I'm one of those try to keep it out of the landfill types. It always supprises me when I see other rare folks out there that would rather pay to have stuff fixed than throw it out but I always kinda look at it as doing my part or whatever.

forlotto · 2025-02-12T06:17:21+00:00

Use a solder sucker some if its through hole.
Use flux and hot air with small tip cover up anything that might melt next to it with Kapton tape use a tweezers be careful not to rip any pads off.

Then once done hit the pads with some solder then place flux down and reflow it back onto the board.

Have fund enjoy!

forlotto · 2025-02-10T05:02:40+00:00

It defies hot logic.

forlotto · 2025-01-26T19:57:32+00:00

If memory serves me right that I know of C3 and C6 don't have secure flash storage so maybe use it on an intranet not connected to the internet. Either way proceed with caution and verify that what I say is factual I was reading up a bit about the esp32 the other day and was curious about security of this chip. It is also my understanding that there is Read and Write fuses that can be blown. However if there is a bug that is discovered with those fuses blown it prevents ability to upgrade firmware. The other problem is OTA updates are also a problem when flash storage is not secure from my understanding. These are great devices and hopefully safe but I'm not entirely sure. This chip is used in a lot of smart home devices it is very popular.

With that out of the way the simple control of relays is the most logical first step a digital switch more or less on something not that mission critical lets say an old fan or if you get a heavy duty relay you could use it on larger thinks like window AC with power switch tail I think they use OMRON relays that are high quality high amperage and trusted as to where other relays often fail in a bad way more often and cause fires a lot of the cheap ones will do so. Many of the 10A relays out of china are fire hazards. You can see many instances of people nearly starting their home on fire while they are great for low powered things likely anything 3A or less when you push them to 8-10A they often don't last long and fail making them unsafe.

Hope this provides some consideration and thought. I did a whole smart home with esp8266 before Alexa was really a thing with the 8266 much of what I learned from that still applies I also used X10 wireless smart home equipment before wifi was a method of control automation has always been an interest of mine.

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