cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45249301
Hi there, i have a few questions about GL-Mt3000 and Openwrt.
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I bought a year ago a Gl-Mt3000 and have been using it as a home router since then.
It was fantastic, since the interface is really easy, i put all my iot on a guest network, my family cellphones on another and activated Adguardhome with little knowledge needed.
Now, i wanted to start learning a bit more, so i decided to host the dns sinkhole (Adguard Home) by myself on my main network.
I more or less got it working, it shouted a few errors but it worked. My problem is that the iot devices on the guest network can't access it.
Tinkering with the gl-inet interface i was able to proxy all dns request to the Adguard server, but since they are redirected from the router i lose the statistics since every query appears as if it was done by the router itself.
~~From what i read, there are ways to make the udp 53 port reach the guest network but it flew a bit over my head, and i don't know how touching luci will mess with the gl-inet interface.~~ Edit: You can easily do this through the gl.inet interface, on the tab called port forwarding, you can forward between zones, not only to the internet, i don't know why it didn't occurred to me. In my defense i wasn't able to google either. Maybe it was too obvious.
Questions:
Is there any benefit to host AdguardHome outside the router? I did it to learn, but i don't know if it has any advantages.
I plan to learn openwrt and flash the router to vanilla openwrt. My reasons are that:
- I feel restricted by the gl-inet interface.
- Gl-inet doesn't seem to update too frequently their firmware.
- I'm worried their custom software will cause problems if i tinker Luci too much.
- I think it will easier to learn the vanilla version than a custom version.
Does all of this make sense? Do you think is worth to spend time on this?
I'm leaning towards it, i will probably bit the bullet. Thanks for your comment.