Aerohive AP330

Aerohive AP330

Warning: This device must be flashed via UART. Do not buy a stock AP330 unless you are comfortable with the install process below.

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Flashing From The Stock Firmware

Aerohive routers come with a super locked down operating system on them. They're optimized for management via something called the Hive Manager, which is a cloud platform owned by Aerohive. This obviously won't do!

In order to flash OpenWrt, we will need to interrupt the boot-up process using a serial cable and a program called minicom. We will then load OpenWrt directly into RAM, and boot from memory. After booting a temporary copy of OpenWrt in this way, we can run a sysupgrade within OpenWrt to flash OpenWrt onto the hard-drive. This is not as hard as it sounds. Before proceeding, you will want to obtain a console cable, and download minicom.

Interrupt The Boot Process

1. Connect your laptop to the Aerohive with a console cable
2. launch `minicom` in a terminal
3. Connect the Aerohive to power, and quickly press any key to interrupt the boot process
4. You should see a prompt starting with

   =>

Use Tftpboot To Load OpenWrt Into Memory

There are a couple commands missing from the commit message.

Benchmarks

Clearnet Wireless Traffic

~ 70Mbps

Client connecting to 192.168.1.137, TCP port 5001 with pid 28923
Write buffer size:  128 KByte
TCP window size:  246 KByte (default)
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[  3] local 192.168.1.204 port 34440 connected with 192.168.1.137 port 5001 (ct=1.75 ms)
[ ID] Interval            Transfer    Bandwidth       Write/Err  Rtry     Cwnd/RTT        NetPwr
[  3] 0.0000-10.1140 sec  72.0 MBytes  59.7 Mbits/sec  576/0          0       -1K/3708 us  2013.12

Yggdrasil Wireless Traffic

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