[OpenWrt Wiki] Firewall and network interfaces
openwrt.org › docs › guide-userSep 09, 2021 · Firewall and network interfaces The goal of a router is to forward packet streams from incoming network interfaces to outgoing network interfaces. Firewall rules add another layer of granularity to what is allowed to be forwarded across interfaces - and additionally which packets are allowed to be inputted to, and outputted from, the router itself.
[OpenWrt Wiki] UCI networking options cheatsheet
openwrt.org › docs › guide-userSep 08, 2019 · Physical interface name such as eth0.1, eth2, tun0 to assign to this section, or list of interfaces if type bridge is set. Do not specify wireless interfaces as their names and behavior can be dynamic and unpredictable, instead assign wireless interfaces to bridges using the network option in wireless configuration.
[OpenWrt Wiki] Web interface overview
openwrt.org › docs › guide-userAug 02, 2021 · JUCI is modern web interface developed for OpenWRT-based embedded devices. It is built using HTML5 and angular.js and uses websockets for communicating with a compact and fast Lua backend running on the embedded device. You can build both the frontend application and the backend server independently of each other and use them separately.
[OpenWrt Wiki] Linux Network Interfaces
openwrt.org › networking › networkPhysical Network Interfaces. eth0, eth8, radio0, wlan19, .. always represent an actual network hardware device such as a NIC, WNIC or some other kind of Modem. As soon as the device driver is loaded into the Kernel a corresponding physical network interface becomes present and available. Any physical network interface is a named software ...