[Wylug-discuss] EdgeRouters, DNSMasq an LinuxJournal

[Graham Whaley]

I was about to say you can, I believe, run Debian on the EdgeMax, but
then found an article saying that the distro that comes on it is
Debian based and you can add packages:
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-CLI-Basics-Knowledge/EdgeMAX-Add-other-Debian-packages-to-EdgeOS/ta-p/413071
And it looks like dnsmasq has a Debian package - it might be an option?
Or, for the brave, you can run gentoo on the EdgeMax and roll your own
thing and I believe there is an OpenWRT port as well.

But, it will not surprise me if the super fast accelerated networking
is from some proprietary code driving the hardware accelerators, so
you may not get the whizz bang million packets a second thing without
the stock distro installed.

Andy, if you were going to try out installing your own stuff etc. then
if you take the case off (after asking David maybe ;-) then you will
find a USB stick plugged in the board that holds the distro. You can
yank/copy/replace etc. which is handy - but be warned, the board is a
bit picky about which sticks it is stable with, and I'm not sure if
the patches have made it upstream to improve that yet etc. If you do
need some more details then I can put you in touch with some folks who
should know (who are in Leeds!).

I might have to contemplate a machine to run dnsmasq on now if I run
into DNS/DHCP woes again :-)

 Graham


On 25 February 2015 at 20:07, David Morris <david at david-morris.co.uk> wrote:
> This is a great article, thanks Graham, how fortuitous! It provides a neat
> system for combining dhcp and DNS for the local LAN, just as we were
> discussing at the meet up.
>
> I wonder if dnsmasq can run on the edgerouter? The UBNT forums don't seem to
> have anyone who has set that up, but someone has a guide to adding ad-block
> scripts to dnsmasq running on edgerouter so it looks like that might be a
> possibility  http://www.bciuca.com/2014/02/05/edgerouter-ad-block/
>
> NB: Andy Glass dropped by yesterday and picked up my second edgerouter to
> try configuring the OpenVPN server as discussed on Monday. Cheating I know
> but I want to make sure I get at least one thing ticked off before the next
> meet up.
>
> Sent from my mobile
>
>
> On 24 Feb 2015, at 22:45, Graham Whaley <graham.whaley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think we mentioned all three in last nights meeting, and then they all
> turn up in an article tonight!
>
> http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/dnsmasq-pint-sized-super-d%C3%A6mon
>
> Graham
>
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