Ubiquiti RouterStation
Hardware
Power
The RouterStations arrived in a small envelope. Instant reactions are to want to power them up and start playing. First problem: where is the power plug? No power plug was found so the search turned to finding pin headers. References on the PCB referred to the jumper J1 having the following configuration:
POWER 12-24VDC J1: 7,8 GND J2: 4,5 +
From this we realized that J1 referred to the main ethernet port that provided the WAN link. A custom cable was constructed using the pinout found online. The wiring initially was wrong and proved to not boot the device (logically). After a call to UBNT's tech support hal0 and teknick found the error, the board booted successfully.
LAN Ports
The LAN ports are connected to a switch. This switch is represented in OpenWRT as eth1 and requires the use of VLANs to enable both ports.
Memory
The routerboard has a generous 16MB non-volatile flash, and 64MB RAM! So far we have not come close to filling this up, so some more packages will probably be installed.
Software
The RouterStation came with a nice, featureful build of Kamikaze OpenWRT with a plethora of preinstalled packages, some of which we may not even use. There was initially some concern over storage and memory, but those were alleviated when one of the researchers was reminded of the above memory stats. So far we have installed OpenVPN, (steve, put more stuff in here).
