This is not a router, it's a NAS with 128MB flash. No Linux distro would fit that.
So I wanna go this route, seems much simpler too. What do you think guys? Do you people use openwrt on NAS, anyone?
Will it be faster than like, Debian? And how would I set up a Tailscale then? I simply don't have to set up things in firewall then? Since this is not a router right? Everything else is the same?
I've had Openwrt running on a Seagate Goflex Home Pogoplug V4, Pogoplug V2.
Openwrt is not Debian, but it really depends what else you want to run on the NSA.
I can add the Seagate Dockstar to the list.
Its just a Linux distro who happened to have some routing related packages.
I've used a NSA325 for a while with OpenWrt as a nas. Worked fine to do the basics such as samba (ksmb) and nfs shares. I used to run syncthing as well to make backup copies of the pictures and whatsapp messages from my phone. It works fine but does not have a fancy interface like synology or qnap. The device is getting old so you won't get very high file transfer speeds compared to any modern nas.
I don't own a NSA325 any more after building a mini itx nas. Not that I really needed more performance but it was just nice to put your own system together.
One thing, is there better gui than luci for nas purposes? I wish we could install something like openmediavault has.
Why do you need a gui?
No need, just asking out of curiosity. If someone forked openwrt, and made a pretty looking nas ui, wouldnt it be perfect? Normies love it.
It won't accept u-boot.kwb file neither via USB or neither tftp. I've done a lot of tftp work before, but seriously this just doesn't work. Ethernet port is not broken either way.
It won't grab the file even though tftpd-hpa is installed(which was very succesful for most routers):
Marvell>> tftpboot 192.168.1.101 u-boot.kwb
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.101; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
Filename 'u-boot.kwb'.
Load address: 0x192
Loading: T
Yeahh did it, this was hard. Tried several(more like 30 times) to make it read the USB disk, with powered USB disk though. Not just any USB HDD. It didn't acknowledge the disk then.
Btw why don't we have neofetch in opkg repos? How am I gonna flex at my bros that I use openwrt btw? Not even fastfetch!
So my impressions:
At wiki there is auto mount script, but it didn't work properly for 2 disks since it's a NAS.
Also write and read speeds are both over 50MB/s (via ftp unencrypted). Good for this CPU. I am not sure how to set up tailscale on this.
