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Hi there, i have a few questions about GL-Mt3000 and Openwrt.

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I bought a year ago a Gl-Mt3000 and have been using it as a home router since then.

It was fantastic, since the interface is really easy, i put all my iot on a guest network, my family cellphones on another and activated Adguardhome with little knowledge needed.

Now, i wanted to start learning a bit more, so i decided to host the dns sinkhole (Adguard Home) by myself on my main network.

I more or less got it working, it shouted a few errors but it worked. My problem is that the iot devices on the guest network can't access it.

Tinkering with the gl-inet interface i was able to proxy all dns request to the Adguard server, but since they are redirected from the router i lose the statistics since every query appears as if it was done by the router itself.

From what i read, there are ways to make the udp 53 port reach the guest network but it flew a bit over my head, and i don't know how touching luci will mess with the gl-inet interface.

Questions:

Is there any benefit to host AdguardHome outside the router?
I did it to learn, but i don't know if it has any advantages.

I plan to learn openwrt and flash the router to vanilla openwrt.
My reasons are that:

  • I feel restricted by the gl-inet interface.
  • Gl-inet doesn't seem to update too frequently their firmware.
  • I'm worried their custom software will cause problems if i tinker Luci too much.
  • I think it will easier to learn the vanilla version than a custom version.

Does all of this make sense? Do you think is worth to spend time on this?

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