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A local agent runs his home router, and he now configures it in plain English

Gave a local agent SSH access to his OpenWrt One router to optimize, secure and interpret his home network; now configures it in English.

How it works

  1. A local agent gets SSH access to his router
  2. Optimises and secures it
  3. Interprets the home network for him
  4. He now configures it by describing what he wants

Why it’s worth knowing

Router admin pages are famously hostile; plain English replaces them.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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