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Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by MertsA »

nijaru wrote: post #105
MertsA wrote: post #104

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>A lot of vendors (even big enterprise ones) use openwrt builds for their products, but don't provide updates, documentation or sources to their customers. Case and point, Ubiquiti networks is once again flagrantly violating the GPL. Their AmpliFi product is basically just a reskin of OpenWRT but they won't provide the source to it.

AFAIK their edgeos is based on vyos, but I have no experience with their amplifi line

It's based on Vyatta, they've had it going since before the split into Vyos but as I understand it there was some collaboration between projects as they are both forks of Vyatta.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by MertsA »

jki275 wrote: post #106
MertsA wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>A lot of vendors (even big enterprise ones) use openwrt builds for their products, but don't provide updates, documentation or sources to their customers. Case and point, Ubiquiti networks is once again flagrantly violating the GPL. Their AmpliFi product is basically just a reskin of OpenWRT but they won't provide the source to it.

Cite?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/8e0w38/mesh_wifi_...

It's been well over a year.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by mobilio »

tapper82 wrote: post #95
mobilio wrote: post #87

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Still using WRT54GL, but revert it to stock firmware. Seems that new WRT like firmwares require more ram than built 16MB.

My god! You mite as well leve your devices out in the street, with know passwords on them and ask members of the public to take what files thay would like! "Roll up Roll up! Here's all my data, fore you good people. come come, get what you want! come it'sa free for all!"

Device is connected to ADSL provider in small village and it's only one AP on 500m radius.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by mtarnovan »

tapper82 wrote: post #46
mtarnovan wrote: post #36

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I have a C7 with OpenWrt, but: If your internet is fast, OpenWrt is not good on the TP-Link C7, see this issue: https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=53703 . I downgraded my internet from 1gbps to 500mbps because of this issue (still plenty fast, not complaining :D)

Hi in the new build of openwrt you can use Software flow offloading.

Thanks, I tried this build: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload and speeds are much improved (more than 2x, I'm getting 893.1Mbps downloads now).

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by mtarnovan »

mtarnovan wrote: post #39

Anyone know a decently priced router with 802.11ac and hardware encryption that can run OpenWRT? I currently have an TP-LINK Archer C7 with OpenWRT but VPN performance is abysmal. I don't know if my router has any hardware decryption (I would assume not) but if it does OpenWRT can't use it.

I just found out that the Archer C7 now has support for both Qualcomm SFE and hardware decryption. No official builds yet (all official builds for the C7 are based on kernel 4.9 while SFE requires 4.14), but I found this: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload

For me the speedup with SFE is almost x2, haven't tried hardware encryption yet.

With this, I would say the C7 is an excellent router for OpenWRT.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by _ea1k »

sexyrouter wrote: post #116
paulcarroty wrote: post #73

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Sounds good, but all these noname Chinese boards literally have no support and no updates. If something serious like KRACK attacks will come - good luck to patch it all. Wifi over USB? Thanks, nope.

What's wrong with USB WiFi if it has USB3, capable of 5Gbps? Usb 3 is duplex.

I don't understand the bias against USB either. USB 3 is pretty good for this kind of thing.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by _ea1k »

DaniloDias wrote: post #97
jlgaddis wrote: post #80

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For development or just playing around, you can run it in a virtual machine.

Do you know if I can reliably use a compatible usb WiFi adapter with a vm?

It is hard to fully generalize that question, since I'm sure it varies a little bit depending on the virtualization software and how well it passes through USB devices. I don't see why it wouldn't work, though.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by wtallis »

mtarnovan wrote: post #120
extra88 wrote: post #77

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The original post, from 2014, states > I tried using both open (no auth) and WPA/WPA2 meaning even without encryption, the TCP performance with OpenWRT was worse than the original firmware.

I should have been clearer. I was talking about two distinct issues: * lack of hardware encryption support * poor network performance (about 50% slower than with original firmware) - the issue I linked to

> lack of hardware encryption support

I don't think that the Archer C7 hardware (or most consumer router hardware) supports any kind of encryption acceleration aside from what's built in to the WiFi radios. If you want a hardware accelerated VPN, you need to either get one of the Cavium-based Ubiquiti routers or something with a relatively high-end processor implementing AES instructions.

The lower routing performance has largely been solved in 18.06 with software flow offloading.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by ce4 »

mobilio wrote: post #86
webmobdev wrote: post #9

I use DD-WRT. How does OpenWRT compare to it?

DD-WRT comes with GUI built-in. OpenWRT comes with command line interfaces and you need to be experienced on that.

Stable releases come with the web gui preinstalled. On nightly builds it's not included, but just install the luci web gui using the opkg package manager.

Re: Openwrt 18.06.2 released

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Post by [deleted] »

dfc wrote: post #109
bobwaycott wrote: post #96

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> I too recently picked up another pocket-sized SBC with Gigabit Ethernet. Compared to Orange Pi 3 it has two additional Ethernet ports, better antennas (no dongle needed), more TF card storage (128GB vs 64GB) and well-tested OpenWRT support. What is it that you purchased?

I had the same reaction. This was one of the strangest omissions. I was certain there was going to be a neat plot twist at the end...

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