Anyone happen to have (or could create) a build for EX2700 with Zerotier included? TIA
You realize the size size of zerotier and its dependencies?
>>810 KB alone
Don't you think it's time for a hardware upgrade?
So here it is February 2025 and I just flashed another of these EX2700 to use as an AP.
I have Ethernet to a outbuilding that houses a POE switch to get camera feeds. The building is also where my well water system is so it cannot freeze or bad things happen, so I have a arduino IOT device to monitor the temperature so I can know if the thermostat to the heating is working proper, it is fringe distance for my WiFi. This extender bridges that gap and now I can get a reading every time it is due instead of having gaps in the reading.
I followed the OP from jlpapple in post 1
I flashed using the Netgear web interface. But I had to rename the extension to have it accept the file. Then I followed the rest of the instructions and it is now working as intended.
I realize this is OLD equipment, but for only needing a IOT report each 15 minutes it surely does the task well. I do not imagine using this for other needs as technology is so advanced for WiFi from this device, but for this need it works well and I am glad to be able to have two of these in service to extend my IOT network on the propery.
The issue I faced was regarding ssh. Seems the ssh-rsa is depreciated and by default now does not allow login from a modern (Debian 13) PC without specifically including that in the command line. I used this to help: OpenWrt 18.06.1: Unable to negotiate with [IP-address] port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa - #3 by elbertmai
Working well, but I will have to research how to make using such a command option more human memory friendly, but research is good, right?
Thank you again to the community for this software.
The OpenSSH client allows per-host options in its configuration file. Open ~/.ssh/config (or make one if it doesn't exist) and add:
Host <EX2700's IP/hostname>
HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
Then, doing ssh root@<EX2700's IP/hostname> by itself should work.
Thank you for the mini tutorial. Works as you stated it would. I was reading the man page for ssh and it is totally crazy how many options there are and it takes concentration to boil it down to the bits that seem relevant to what I might use. I was pretty amazed to find that one can even set up to ssh into a particular device without a password by setting it up in advance. Pretty cool stuff to think about.
This is a awesome community. Thank you for getting me the information I needed without me really asking. I appreciate that.
For doing these custom builds for small ram devices, removing ssh entirely and substituting telnetd might be an option. The encryption algorithms on the newer ssh are all broken anyway which is why they are disabled by default, anyone listening in can decrypt them, so what is the point of even having ssh in there at all if the encryption you are using is decryptable you might as well save the space in the build and use telnet.