A while ago, I had to redo all of the existing Fritz!Box LAN2LAN VPN connections.
It was a pain for many reasons, reminding me of the pain
This is why it was so painful:
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Reminder that the Fritz!Box IKE error 0x1C is still barely documented: crucial places like the built-in help page point to non-existing URLs
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/12
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Fritz!Box: domeinen in de whitelist om TV-West op de PC te kunnen zien
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/05
Deze moet je in een Fritz!Box zetten om TV-West op een PC te kunnen:
cloudfront.net omroepwest.bbvms.com i.regiogroei.cloud static.regiogroei.cloud cdn.primed.io omroepwest.nl
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Zet deze domain in je @AVM_NL #FritzBox op de whitelist om TV West van @omroepwest op je PC te kunnen bekijken: cloudfront.net
omroepwest.bbvms.com i.regiogroei.cloud static.regiogroei.cloud cdn.primed.io omroepwest.nl” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Reminder to self: mid-term solution for replacing Ubiquiti access points
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/11
Last year, after an already long sequence of doing stupid things, Ubiquiti sued Brian Krebs.
For many this was a reason to think about what to replace their Ubiquiti.
My cloud key had already died, I never installed the USG router, so this is the reminder to see if anything has come up to replace the Unifi access points that is easy to manage in a self-hosted way are powered over ethernet, do the same seamless handover and cooperative WiFi antenna management.
Some links from back then:
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Some notes on the PC Engines apu2e4 router board (apu2e4 = 3 i210AT LAN / AMD GX-412TC CPU / 4 GB DRAM)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/27
Some links on the pfSense hardware I am planning to use.
- [Wayback/Archive] PC Engines APU.4D4 Throughput : PFSENSE
- [Wayback/Archive] Firewall throughput measurements: OPNsense on APU4d4, OPNsense in a Proxmox VM, and OpenWRT on Turris Omnia | René Mayrhofer
Whereas apu1 was totally different, apu2, apu3, apu4 and apu6 are very similar. The letters after the first digit indicate evolution of the boards. The first and last digit set apart features. Together, they form a confusing matrix which is not really made clear at the PC Engines web-site as some intermediate categories are missing which makes it hard to get an overview.
Basically their shop site has the list of most current products and is easiest to get links to the actual product names. Like many Swiss companies, they accept multiple currencies, so there are three links to the shop:
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Fixing a broken xs4all internet connection was a simple as a cold NTU reboot – jpluimers on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/11
Translation of solving a broken xs4all connection:
Solved. Summary:
- Liander and UPS functiond, so both Fritz!Box and NTU had power
- NTU LEDs show Power and Glass, but no Ethernet
- Fritz!Box has green Power and WLAN LEDs and a red Info LED
Solution was cold reboot of NTU.
I also neatly tucked away the NTU power cord for an additional 8 minutes extra down time: [Wayback/Archive] mwgp ping – wiert.me
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At last: WireGuard VPN with FRITZ! | FRITZ!Box 7490 | AVM International
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/08
Early spring 2023 I posted Reminder to self: check if FritzOS 7.50 has become available for Fritz!Box 7490 because it would (likely partially) introduce WireGuard support as I knew it had been available for other Fritz!Box devices since december 2022: [Wayback/Archive] Fritzbox: AVM startet die Verteilung von FritzOS 7.50 | heise online
Das Betriebssystem FritzOS 7.50 für Fritzbox-Router ist fertig. Mit dabei sind das Wireguard-VPN und Verbesserungen im Smart-Home-Funktionsumfang.
Finally, early september 2023 my Fritz!Box 7490 devices updated from firmware version 7.29 to 7.57 so apparently it took AVM quite a while to test and stabilise the new features on Fritz!Box 7490.
The final push for 7.57 might actually be a security issue in prior versions that already looks like being exploited according to [Wayback/Archive] AVM: Fritzbox-Firmware 7.57 und 7.31 stopfen Sicherheitsleck | heise online
Fritzbox-Update: Bereits angegriffene Sicherheitslücke wahrscheinlich
In Internetforen finden sich Hinweise darauf, dass die mit dem Update geschlossene Sicherheitslücke bereits angegriffen wird. Den Gerüchten zufolge können Angreifer Zugriff durch den HTTPS-Port 443 erlangen und hätten dann Zugangsdaten zur Fritzbox sowie PPP-Zugangsdaten verändert. Dadurch sei kein Internetzugang mehr möglich, und auch der Zugriff auf die Fritzbox werde verhindert. Einzig ein Werksreset helfe dann, um wieder Zugriff zu erlangen.
The odd thing of the upgrade logs is that the fiber connected 7490 mentioning a DSL settings reset, but the DSL connected 7490 didn’t:
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Fritz!Box firewall permissions for NPO Start
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/01
I had to add the below to the firewall permission list of a Fritz!Box to allow watching NPO Start, the free Video on Demand service of the Dutch public broadcasting system:
npostart.nl assets.npo-data.nl www-assets.npo.nl start-player.npo.nl ccm.npo.nl images.npo.nl npo-drm-gateway.samgcloud.nepworldwide.nl time.akamai.com npo.prd.cdn.bcms.kpn.com
You can find the list on the page fritz.box/?lp=trafapp under Permitted websites edit.
–jeroen
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Learned a while ago from @Caramelia79 at Twitter: “AEG Methode.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/28
Too bad that [Wayback/Archive] Cara (@Caramelia79) / Twitter deleted their tweet before it got archived, so this lone tweet does not really make sense now:
[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@Caramelia79 @unimanatee Heute neu gelernt: AEG Methode.” / Twitter
The joke however was this:
AEG Methode:
- Ausschalten
- Einschalten
- Geht
It is also known as “AEG-Prinzip” and refers back to the AEG brand that was (still is?) big in Germany for household appliances and industrial products.
The not so cool thing is that by now it seams to mean:
- Ausschalten
- Einschalten
- Geht nicht
as about a year ago some AEG microwave appliance models show errors F606 and F254 after a firmware update: they now think they are steam ovens but cannot find the correct steam hardware:
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Looking for maintainer(s) for fritzcap (Python project that captures calls from a Fritz!Box)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/12
Given my health uncertainty, I am looking for maintainers for the fritzcap project (it captures calls from a Fritz!Box modem/router and is written in Python).
History
The fritzcap project was originally started in2007 by [Wayback/Archive] spongebob | IP Phone Forum, first as a binary fritzcap.exe Windows executable (see his first post at [Wayback/Archive] FritzBox: Tool für Etherreal Trace und Audiodaten-Extraktion | IP Phone Forum). In 2010 it became an open source Python project at [Wayback/Archive] Google Code Archive – Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
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Some cool (mostly Dutch) WiFi names (related to my earlier naming posts)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/22
From [Wayback/Archive] De Leukste Wifinaam van 2021 | NPO Radio 2:
- It hurts when IP
- Modem Talking
- Boogie WonderLAN
- AIVD afluisterplantenbak
- WiFinal Countdown
- Ichbinwifidu
- Michiel de Router
- Ziggo Stardust
- Drop it like it’s hotspot
- Draadlozing
- WhyTellMeFi
- Lekker Wifi
- Wifi Soerjadi
- Jodelawifi
My related blog posts:
- 75 Funny Wifi Names (besides Disconnected and Access Denied)
- Ian Sausage on Twitter: “Me: What’s the wifi password? Barman: You need to buy a drink first. Me: Okay, I’ll have a coke. ..”
- For WiFi guest networks with a fixed SSID: QR code – Wikipedia
–jeroen
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