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Prevent OpenWRT from blocking PPTP connections

Written July 26, 2008 in Note-To-Self

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I have OpenWRT running as a firewall both at work, and from my home office. A client asked me to connect to his systems using a
PPTP VPN, and I battled for two days to connect. My Mac VPN client gave me a fairly useless error, something to the tune of …

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How to convert a .BIN file to .TRX for OpenWRT / DD-WRT

Written July 26, 2008 in Tutorial

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I recently had reason to convert the latest DD-WRT firmware .bin file to .trx format, so that I could manually flash my WRT54GL. Not wanting to risk it, I first converted the .bin image with the following command:

[sourcecode language=bash]dd if=firmware.bin of=firmware.trx bs=32 skip=1[/sourcecode]

Which I found here.

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