{"id":180,"date":"2008-11-16T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-11-16T23:42:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:42:01","slug":"burned-by-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/burned-by-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Burned by Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I was adding a new wifi device to my home network.\u00a0 One of the security features I make use of is MAC address filtering (and yes, I know a motivated attacker can spoof a MAC address easily enough, but there are many easier targets in my neighbourhood).\u00a0 My primary router is a Linksys WRT54GL<\/a> running DD-WRT<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have one of the Linksys WRT54G*<\/a> routers, my experience is the stock firmware is terrible – you should either run DD-WRT<\/a> or Tomato<\/a> and if you insist on staying stock, at least get the latest version<\/a> from Linksys.<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing with Google Chrome<\/a> a little bit.\u00a0 The various “run it<\/a> under Linux<\/a>” solutions simply don’t work well enough to bother with.\u00a0 So until Google gets a Linux version going – I’ve been playing with it under Windows.\u00a0 There are some things I like about Chrome: the ability to tear off a tab and get a new window; the omnibar; and their process per tab is pretty nifty.\u00a0 On the downside is plug-in stability (Adobe Reader really sucked in the 1st release, better in the update), general stability (I’ve crashed it a few times) and compatibility (some websites don’t recognize it).\u00a0 I’m not ready to make it my primary browser, but I do use it regularly.<\/p>\n

In order to edit the MAC filter list, I need to navigate some of the DD-WRT administration pages to make some changes.\u00a0 I was surprised to get an error message from Chrome when trying to save my changes, it turns out I was hitting a bug<\/a> that was only very recently fixed.\u00a0 So, no worries – I just switched to Firefox<\/a> and redid the change.\u00a0 However, to my dismay – it seems that the partial commit from Chrome caused my router to completely clear my nvram<\/a> (in all honesty I can’t prove this, but the sequence of events makes sense).<\/p>\n

DD-WRT<\/a> has been very stable for me for quite some time.\u00a0 I was running v23 SP2 and had looked at the newer v24 version since it had some neat bandwidth monitoring features<\/a>, but had decided to stall as migrating my configuration would be a bunch of work (and risk if I got it wrong).\u00a0 Lucky for me I had gotten a dump of the nvram by logging into the router via telnet and issuing a “nvram show” command, having this dump gave me a reference to help move my config over.<\/p>\n

Faced with the complete loss of my configuration, I figured it was as good a time as any to upgrade to the latest version (v24 SP1).\u00a0 The upgrade went smoothly, and the new firmware looks really slick.\u00a0 In a way I’m sort of glad that I finally got around to doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I was adding a new wifi device to my home network.\u00a0 One of the security features I make use of is MAC address filtering (and yes, I know a motivated attacker can spoof a MAC address easily enough, but there are many easier targets in my neighbourhood).\u00a0 My primary router is a Linksys … Continue reading “Burned by Chrome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}