affordablemobiles / openwrt-netgear-dm200-bridge

Files for the OpenWRT Image Builder, for an ADSL/VDSL Bridge, PlusNet UK

Netgear DM200 Transparent ADSL/VDSL Bridge

Files for OpenWRT Image Builder, pre-configured for UK ISPs.

This firmware when built and flashed to the Netgear DM200, will make it operate in a transparent bridge mode, where it will auto-configure to either ADSL or VDSL, depending on what is detected on the line.

Networking Setup

The internet connection from the ISP is always bridged directly to the ethernet port, untagged (you don't need to specify VLAN 101 for FTTC, this is handled internally), allowing you to do PPPoE or just DHCP directly on your ethernet router, depending on the connection type from your ISP.

Management Interface (VLAN 2)

As well as the connection bridge, we also expose a management network on VLAN 2, allowing you to access connection status, or manage the modem (SSH, Luci, firmware flash, etc).

Modem network settings for VLAN 2 :

IP Address:            172.16.2.250
Network Mask:          255.255.255.0

Expected router IP:    172.16.2.254

Services exposed:

SSH (port 22):               [email protected]

Web:
    Status Overview page:    http://172.16.2.250/
    Status JSON feed:        http://172.16.2.250/cgi-bin/luci/a1comms/status/json
    Luci Web Admin Panel:    http://172.16.2.250/cgi-bin/luci

Usage & Build

Building

To build from these files, you'll need to copy everything from this repo into your extracted image builder folder, but before you build, you'll need to add the Lantiq firmware for the internal modem.

This can be obtained from: https://xdarklight.github.io/lantiq-xdsl-firmware-info/

The version you are looking for us 5.7.B.5.0.7-5.7.5.4.0.1, which should give you the file dsl_vr9_firmware_xdsl-05.07.0B.05.00.07_05.07.05.04.00.01.bin.

Please place that file at files/lib/firmware/dsl_vr9_firmware_xdsl-05.07.0B.05.00.07_05.07.05.04.00.01.bin.

You should now be able to run ./build.sh in the root to build the images.

Flashing

To flash, you'll need to use the standard firmware upgrade methods, either for the stock firmware, or inside Luci if you've already flashed a previous version.

If flashing from the stock firmware, use the file ending in "-factory.img".

If flashing from a previous version, use the file ending "-sysupgrade.bin".

openwrt-netgear-dm200-bridge's Issues

"No such file or directory" when "etc/init.d/macboot" runs

Hello !

I'm trying to build my own image with "openwrt-imagebuilder-18.06.5-lantiq-xrx200.Linux-x86_64.tar.xz".

Firmware is working fine but I have problems with the "a1comms" features, I can't see "System Info" or "xDSL Modem Status" and the "/cgi-bin/luci/a1comms/status/json" URL gives me :

/usr/lib/lua/luci/template.lua:97: Failed to execute template 'custom/status_json'.
A runtime error occurred: [string "/usr/lib/lua/luci/view/custom/status_json.h..."]:5: module 'luci.tools.status' not found:
no field package.preload['luci.tools.status']
no file './luci/tools/status.lua'
no file '/usr/share/lua/luci/tools/status.lua'
no file '/usr/share/lua/luci/tools/status/init.lua'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/luci/tools/status.lua'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/luci/tools/status/init.lua'
no file './luci/tools/status.so'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/luci/tools/status.so'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/loadall.so'
no file './luci.so'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/luci.so'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/loadall.so'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'require'
[string "/usr/lib/lua/luci/view/custom/status_json.h..."]:5: in main chunk
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
/usr/lib/lua/luci/template.lua:97: in function </usr/lib/lua/luci/template.lua:85>
(tail call): ?
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:913: in function 'dispatch'
/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:440: in function </usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:439>

Maybe it is related to this when building :

Finalizing root filesystem...
./etc/init.d/macboot: line 6: /lib/functions/uci-defaults.sh: No such file or directory
./etc/init.d/macboot: line 7: /lib/functions/system.sh: No such file or directory
./etc/init.d/macboot: line 8: /lib/functions/lantiq.sh: No such file or directory

This is reference by the file "openwrt-netgear-dm200-bridge/files/etc/init.d/macboot".