OpenWrt 23.05 • Hacker News Board

Re: OpenWrt 23.05

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Post by FeistySkink » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 1:54 AM UTC

menthe wrote: post #26

jvolkman wrote: post #19

OpenWrt is commonly used to breathe new (or better) life into consumer routers, but you can also run it on any x86 machine. I run it on a small, passively-cooled i5 machine* virtualized in Proxmox alongside Home Assistant. I originally ran OPNSense, then VyOS, but eventually went back to OpenWRT since it does everything I want/need with a simple interface. * https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/hzvfih/new_router…

Great comment, and same. Running it on Proxmox also enables running the router in a high-availability fashion quite easily too.. which is pretty neat. I was running OpenWRT on my Xiaomi AX9000 (based on master but also IPQ807 specific forks), but everything OpenWRT is software-based so 1/ the AX9000's acceleration chips are idle & performance is quite limited (unless using one of the crazy experimental NSS builds whe…

I was looking at AX9000 for OpenWRT. Are these issues still present in the latest release?

Re: OpenWrt 23.05

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Post by giuliomagnifico » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:31 AM UTC

spaintech wrote: post #34

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #2

Just updated all my devices, the stable support to the Wifi 6E is a great thing. OpenWrt is the best firware with the best community and support for home network devices!

What devices do you currently run OpenWRT on? I’d like to have a good and secure home network, currently running a pair of Ubiquity UDRs, and sometimes I wish I could have more control.

nanoPi R4S. Here’s my home network http://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2023/09/14/home-netwo...

Re: OpenWrt 23.05

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Post by giuliomagnifico » Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:35 AM UTC

marcosscriven wrote: post #25

giuliomagnifico wrote: post #2

Just updated all my devices, the stable support to the Wifi 6E is a great thing. OpenWrt is the best firware with the best community and support for home network devices!

What router are you using with 6E that supports this? Or is it a DIY thing with a WiFi card?

I’m using the Netgear WAX206 as an access point, not 6E but only 6 btw.

Re: OpenWrt 23.05

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Post by gnunez » Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

walteweiss wrote: post #79

gnunez wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it also works really nice with the raspberry pi 4 and QEMU.

I was trying to get your idea, but then realised that probably you meant Raspberry Pi or QEMU. Or do you run it on Raspberry Pi with QEMU? If so… why?

Hi apologies for any confusion. What i meant to say is that OpenWrt can be run on the Raspberry Pi. I did this because I had a Raspberry Pi laying around and did not want to invest in additional hardware just for experimenting with OpenWrt within my internal network. You can also run OpenWrt in a virtual environment like QEMU -- this is useful if you're aiming to connect multiple VMs to OpenWrt, effectively setting up a virtual network with OpenWrt at its core. Please see links below for more info:

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=21.02.3&targe... https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu