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Command line utility to convert TP-Link router backup config files
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TP-Link TD-W9970 V2 #4

Closed txr660 closed 5 years ago

txr660 commented 5 years ago

Hi I have bought the TP-Link TD-W9970 V2 Router last week , and I was surprised to find that the LEDs for LAN or WiFi don't flash or blink . I actually considered returning it , but it's my only option right now .

I'm very new to BusyBox / Bash ( but I can manage my computer easily if I find instructions )

So , I have 2 questions I hope you can help with :

1- How to control the LEDs ? Where to put the command you wrote in the Readme.md ? There is a BusyBox file called >> busybox_PRINTF << that I downloaded from the website but I don't where to use .

2- I have a VDSL connection and I know I can't install OpenWRT ( like you pointed ) because there are no OSS drivers . But I like the availability of adblocker packages with OpenWRT .

So , is there a way to do this with BusyBox or other scripts that I put in a USB drive and use with the router ?

Thank you

sta-c0000 commented 5 years ago

1 - Busybox is a multi-call binary... so a printf symbolic link to busybox-mips will work (ln -s /var/usbdisk/sda1/busybox-mips /var/bin/printf), or simply busybox-mips printf will work; an alias would also work, as shown in the readme. I mentioned in the readme that you can control the LEDs from your own scripts or programs. If you are asking me how to get the LEDs to flash whenever there is network traffic... unfortunately you can’t (not without a lot of overhead anyhow). TP-Link would have had to include the netfilter (iptables) led module and system class for their kernel, which they did not do.

2 - Possibly, but you probably would need more than busybox. You might be able to run a dnsmasq service on the router configured with publicly available blocklists (after killing the built in dnsProxy service)... (this would require a static MIPS dnsmasq which could be created using Buildroot).

But it would probably be much simpler for you to run something like Pi-hole on a another (cheap) device on your network.

Have fun and good luck.