Enabling post processing HOWTO

[Snufkin]

To save time of most newcomers I wrote very simple step-by-step procedure for dummies
How to enable post processing in 1.9.2.7-CR4 firmware .

Everybody welcome to phpwiki @ Chupa.nl.

Yours,
Veteran Dummy

[barsju]

Very nice! Would have been very helpfull for me and perhaps saved me a couple of hours when i started out.

S.

[Styno]

Your post-boot commands should be in post-firewall IMHO.

Also, this info is in the WIKI allready....under the name of FlashfsBoot

[tomilius]

Heh... for a second I thought somebody had found a fancy video card on the router ... Post-processing.

Nice. I think. But I haven't looked at it. Still...

[Snufkin]

... this info is in the WIKI allready....under the name of FlashfsBoot

I did not find any page in wiki which contains direct link to FlashfsBoot how to. May be I'm not very big friend of search button, who knows ...

[Oleg]

Your post-boot commands should be in post-firewall IMHO.

No, they're correctly placed both to post-boot (and being used BEFORE post-firewall is started) and subsequently would be executed by post-firewall, then firewall rules are get changed due to connect/disconnect.

[Styno]

I did not find any page in wiki which contains direct link to FlashfsBoot how to. May be I'm not very big friend of search button, who knows ...

He, I didn't know the WIKI contained a search option...oh wait....it doesn't have a search button

Now seriously: The page is linked in most 'additional packages' pages.

No, they're correctly placed both to post-boot (and being used BEFORE post-firewall is started) and subsequently would be executed by post-firewall, then firewall rules are get changed due to connect/disconnect.

Hmm, I don't understand that. Can you elaborate a bit more?

[Oleg]

Hmm, I don't understand that. Can you elaborate a bit more?

There are two WAN networks. One is something like intranet and accessible directly via WAN port (eth1) using a static address and the other one is internet, which is accessed via PPTP using ppp0 interface.
wl500g does not support two WAN interfaces at a time, so post-boot and post-firewall scripts should be used. eth1 routes/iptables entries should be created manually as firmware is only knows of ppp0. post-firewall script are get executed then ppp0 are coming up, which is delayed on startup (but we still need to use eth1), so we create this rule using post-boot. Once ppp0 is up, iptables content would be flushed and post-firewall script would be called to add the same entry.

[Pirat]

Hello!

Can I use this to start custom programs after booting or are this scripts called after every change of the WAN-Port (DHCP renew, ...)?

[Styno]

Can I use this to start custom programs after booting or are this scripts called after every change of the WAN-Port (DHCP renew, ...)?

These scripts are called only once after booting.

[Pirat]

Thank You!