Posts tagged 'routers'

Setting a custom HTTPS certificate in Tomato, AdvancedTomato, or FreshTomato

I’m transitioning all of my local network services toward using an internal CA, but AdvancedTomato is a little trickier in that regard because it doesn’t have support for loading a custom cert or key in the web UI. Instead, you must connect over SSH and modify the certificate files manually, then write them to nvram. Simply upload cert.pem and key.pem to the root home directory, then save this shell script: cp ./cert.pem /etc/cert.pem cp ./key.pem /etc/key.pem sed -i "/END CERTIFICATE/q"...

The Router Review: From nmap to firmware

When I moved into my flat, I found that the previous tenant had left behind his Sky Broadband router. Awesome - a new toy to break! Sadly I got bogged down with silly things like moving house and going to work, so I didn’t get a chance to play with it. Until now, that is. This isn’t the first embedded device I’ve played with. Over the years I’ve desoldered EEPROMs from routers, done unspeakable things to photocopiers, and even overvolted an industrial UPS unit via SNMP. The router I shall be discussing in...