wrt on zyxel nbg6716

proxy autoconfig is a combination of DHCP optons, and a bit of JS in a wpad.dat file. under  network>hostnames  add an entry ' wpad ' pointing to your router's lan-ip then create a /www/wpad.dat file (got mine from here ). and changed the default rule to point to polipo - 10.0.0.1:8123 also changed .local into .lan for lan hosts , and commented some stuff out that didn't seem relevant. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { // If the hostname matches, send direct. //   if (dnsDomainIs(host, "intranet.domain.com") || //        shExpMatch(host, "(*.abcdomain.com|abcdomain.com)")) //        return "DIRECT"; // If the protocol or URL matches, send direct.     if (url.substring(0, 4)=="ftp:" ||         shExpMatch(url, "http://abcdomain.com/folder/*"))         return "DIRECT"; // If the requested website is hosted within the internal network, send direct. ...

Let's see if we can (at least make it seem like) web browsing is faster... (i'm still not sure whether installing SQM was an improvement) I chose polipo as it is geared to home use and is supposedly easier to deal with than squid. And it comes with its own luci app so install is dead easy install luci-app-polipo defaults looked sensible, so I just directed my browser to use router.lan:8123 as proxy, and presto - things indeed 'feel' faster. A check with chrome didn't reveal a significant decrease in load time though - 11.9s vs 11, even on a reload... but in this case the log showed a lot of cache directives not being recognized by polipo. ! there might be an issue with the resolver and local hostnames (openwrt.lan) but not sure yet. Anyhoo, so let's add some storage for polipo to use so everything won't have to go in RAM. Apparently ext4 is the better filesystem for wrt so let's prepare a usb stick for that. (sudo) fdisk -l -> check wher...