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Teng Wang

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Hi,

I recently flash my AC68U to Merlin and installed entware on a USB dongle, and then got lost in hundreds of entware packages.

The features I am looking for include:
1. P2P downloader (transmission looks good so far)
2. stream service
3. Ad blocker
4. sync between PC/mobile to HDD attached to Merlin router

Any suggestion would be appreciated. It would be nice too if you have other interesting packages to share

Also does entware become invalid if I reboot the router? Looks like /opt link disappears if reboots.

Thanks
 
Hi,

I recently flash my AC68U to Merlin and installed entware on a USB dongle, and then got lost in hundreds of entware packages.

The features I am looking for include:
1. P2P downloader (transmission looks good so far)
2. stream service
3. Ad blocker
4. sync between PC/mobile to HDD attached to Merlin router

Any suggestion would be appreciated. It would be nice too if you have other interesting packages to share

Also does entware become invalid if I reboot the router? Looks like /opt link disappears if reboots.

Thanks
I like the ability to have a sftp GUI session to the router in addition to SSH. I use MobaXterm client for my ssh, sftp and other needs.

opkg install openssh-sftp-server

Let me know if you find any other packages that are helpful. I also installed pixelserv-tls with an solution 3.
 
I like the ability to have a sftp GUI session to the router in addition to SSH. I use MobaXterm client for my ssh, sftp and other needs.

opkg install openssh-sftp-server

Let me know if you find any other packages that are helpful. I also installed pixelserv-tls with an solution 3.
Can't MobaXterm use the built in scp protocol? Saves you from installing the sftp package.
I do a lot of installs, flashing on my routers as you can imagine and long since dropped sftp and simply use scp.
For SSH I use Xshell, file transfer and editing with WinSCP.
 
Can't MobaXterm use the built in scp protocol? Saves you from installing the sftp package.
I do a lot of installs, flashing on my routers as you can imagine and long since dropped sftp and simply use scp.
For SSH I use Xshell, file transfer and editing with WinSCP.

Happy New Year thelonelycoder.

MobaXterm supports SSH sessions with ASUS Merlin. SFTP sessions on ASUS FW does not work unless the openssh-sftp-server package is installed via entware. It was the of prepping the USB drives in advance of AB-Solution 3 install is when I discovered SFTP was not supported out of the box on ASUS routers.

On a DD-WRT router I support at a site, I was able to use SFTP session on it without having to install an SFTP package. I’m sure my SSH and FTP usage is minimal when compared to yours. I had to use an SFTP session earlier today on the DD-WRT router combined with an SSH session to debug a CRON job and shell script. The editor in the SFTP session works for my minimal needs. I sometimes need to use vi on the SSH session when I think I have a hidden character goofing things up when I may have forgotten to enable ASCII mode from a previous session start.

Here are the session options offered by MobaXterm:

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MobaXterm also comes with many packages. But I have not really explored their worth or utility for my limited needs. I will look into Xshell and WinSCP.

Thanks again for all of the support.
 
@Xentrk I have to say I was sceptical, but MobaXterm looks to be very impressive. It's almost impossible to find a free X Server/XDMCP for M$ Windows! (No SCP support though.) Thanks for the tip.
 

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