How do I meet my requirements?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello everyone,

I recently bought a Netgear R7800 and would like to use it in conjunction with LEDE.

I have several requirements I would like to solve with this router and I wonder which software I need to use for each requirement. I already used Linux systems, but I am not an expert. Therefore documentation or concrete tutorials for meeting my requirements would me help a lot.

So if you have ideas how to solve the problems below, please let me know (for example by providing helpful links):

  1. Connect to internet via external modem.
  2. VoIP
  3. DHCP
  4. DNS (I would like to redirect certain hosts like sub.mydomain.org to a local server)
  5. Permanent usage of a VPN provider (NordVPN). All local network devices should access the internet via this VPN.
  6. Reverse proxy (nginx) which is used as a facade to all local webservers which are hosted by different internal servers.
  7. Guest WiFi

I guess that's it for the moment. Thanks for your help!

Kind regards
Richard

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  1. If you mean a dial-up modem, it's certainly possible
  2. QoS and VoIP software are available
  3. Most routers do DHCP, LEDE is no different https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/dhcp
  4. You mean DDNS, yes it can do it, and there are packages/scripts available https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/ddns.client
  5. Not familiar with NordVPN, but Swan, OpenVPN and Wireguard are know to be in use https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.overview
  6. Nginx is available for install https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/http.nginx
  7. See: Creating separate network interface for Wi-Fi - #6 by lleachii

You may wish to do a web search on these topics, there's a lot of information available.

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Thanks for answering. Concerning 2. Do I need something like Asterisk?

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I think you need to be more specific. What do you mean by VoIP?

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I want to replace my Fritzbox 7390 with a Netgear R7800. The connection to my ISP is stablished via an external modem. My ISP offers internet access and telephony. In my Fritzbox I can see that a VLAN and PVC is activated. I wonder how to migrate this information to LEDE.

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While it should be possible to run the pbx software on your r7800 (e.g. asterisk, which is not trivial to configure), the r7800 can neither provide FXS ports nor DECT - so the only phones you could connect without additional hardware (like a VoIP ATA inbetween) would be IP phones.

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Ok, that's a very helpful information! Thanks!

Is it possible to "host" an answering machine on my router and the ip phones notify me with a led, if there are new messages?

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Answering machine, yes - LED notification, perhaps (depends on configuration and all involved devices)