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Subject:	Re: quick review: arokh's feature-full build of openwrt
Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:00:04 +0200
From:	Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
To:	Dave Täht <dave@taht.net>

My build:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28392
(download newest trunk build from Dropbox: 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t52c02rm20y8x9p/khFGAJu3gc  )

The message below is talking about Arokh' build, so I am just repeating also 
the link that.
Arokh's build:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50914


Hannu


On 14.2.2016 19:57, Dave Täht wrote:
> Where's your build again?
>
> On 2/14/16 9:56 AM, Dave Täht wrote:
>> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50914 as of feb 13th has many
>> features (like having the luci-ssl gui native, sqm-scripts, and support
>> for nearly all the platforms I have handy (c7v2, linksys 1200ac, wndr
>> 4800 and 4300))... so I replaced a c7v2 router as my default home
>> gateway to see how it did. It also has nifty features like multiple vpn
>> support, mwan (for multiple uplinks), and a tor-specific ssid.
>>
>> Quick notes:
>>
>> dns is tunneled through dnscrypt and then to opendns by default, and
>> feels "chunky".
>>
>> The ath10k in the archer c7v2 refused to come up with a "world" setting,
>> I had to move it to country='US'.
>>
>> The wifi interfaces are bridged. (which is ok at the moment, I wanted a
>> simple test)
>>
>> IPv6 "just worked".
>>
>> The default optional packages pointed to the wrong place - fixed with
>>
>> cd /etc/opkg
>> sed -i
>> s#http://luci.subsignal.org/~trondah/archer_cx/r48717/packages/#http://luci.subsignal.org/~trondah/archer_cx/r48717/packages/#g

>> di
>> stfeeds.conf
>>
>> netperf and Babel were not installed by default, but all the other tools
>> I rely on like tcpdump were.
>>
>> It's kernel 4.1.16 (openwrt elsewhere is trying to stabilize on 4.4)
>>
>> cake works, but is mildly busted and does not have the triple flow
>> isolation, and no extended stats are visible. The archer C7v2 has a
>> different default ethernet wan port (eth0 rather than eth1) which caused
>> me a bit of confusion while setting it up.
>>
>> # tc -s qdisc show dev eth0
>> qdisc cake 800a: root refcnt 2 bandwidth 5500Kbit besteffort flows raw
>>   Sent 196703782 bytes 1022519 pkt (dropped 2131, overlimits 1605810
>> requeues 0)
>>   backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
>>
>> The tc package installed is:
>>
>> tc-adv - 4.1.0-git-7
>>
>> While I was away comcast upgraded this connection to 75mbit/5.5mbit. We
>> basically run out of cpu at this speed with cake and the default
>> firewall rules.
>>
>> All and all it's an extremely competent effort, and I am happy to not
>> have had to build it myself. I will probably "downgrade" to use
>> comcast's local dnssec enabled dns resolvers and disable dnscrypt, but
>> all in all it has everything I need on a day to day basis, and it seems
>> to be nearly a pure superset of everything I regarded as essential in
>> CeroWrt.
>>
>> The C7v2 is showing it's age (and there's another issue, which I'll get
>> to in a sec), so I plan to try this distro on a linksys 1200ac later
>> this week.
>>
>> There is another feature-full build of openwrt out there - hannu nyman's
>> build specific to the wndr3800 and friends (like the ubnt gear), which
>> is tracking cake developments more closely. I will give that a shot on
>> my nearly last remaining cerowrt box after confirming the cake
>> implementation is current.
>>
>>