Monthly Archives: February 2013

Another method to collect your OpenWRT statistics Installation: opkg update opkg install luci-app-vnstat vnstat vnstati Configuration: Advance configuration 1) Vnstat Luci configuration script located at /etc/config/vnstat root@OpenWrt:/# cat /etc/config/vnstat config ‘vnstat’ list ‘interface’ ‘br-lan’ list ‘interface’ ‘eth0’ list ‘interface’ ‘eth0.1’ list ‘interface’ ‘eth0.500’ list ‘interface’ ‘eth0.600’ list ‘interface’ ‘wlan0’ 2) Core vnstat configuration file located at /etc/vnstat.conf. Default… Read More »

A minimalist Luci theme Installation: wget http://nut-bolt.nl/files/luci-theme-bootstrap_1-1_all.ipk opkg install luci-theme-bootstrap_1-1_all.ipk This should give you an option ‘Bootstrap’ in the System/System -> Language and Style page. source: http://nut-bolt.nl/2012/openwrt-bootstrap-theme-for-luci Update: 17 February 2014 This theme is now included in the openwrt 12.09 and trunk repos and should be downloaded from there, http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/yourdevice/packages/ and search for luci-theme-bootstrap. Or the easy… Read More »

Out of the box, OpenWRT can show you real-time statistics, however it will not store the data for historical view. I’m looking for similar graphing function as seen on DD-Wrt. Objective: To have a nice historical data graphs for router (interfaces bandwidth utilization, cpu load, uptime) Options we have: -Use SNMP and graph it using cacti -muninlite –vnstat -collectd… Read More »