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I had a netgear R7000 or similar, OpenWRT was rather painful. Didn't support Ipv6, had to steal a few binaries from DDWRT, and it was pretty hacked up. Infreq

• rektide 6y ago
  i have a small fleet of r7800s. they support ipv6. no binaries had to be stolen. nothing was "hacked up". it takes about ~20 minutes to check out the git repository, use "make menuconfig" to choose my board, and type "make". about three hours latter i have a very up to date distro. your mileage may vary. personally i'd rather be running Debian, and have never quite gotten the spare time to try getting Debian going on these systems (i would borrow the kernel & maybe some other packages from openwrt, maybe even kexec in to Debian from openwrt). but openwrt has been low muss low fuss for me since I installed it on a WRT54GS a decade & a half ago. there's certainly some initial uncomfortability learning uboot, understanding what to do. but i've never had to go to any special measures for things to be just working. did you report any of your issues? are there bug reports for anything you encountered? nothing in what you wrote up sounds right or good or like what i've experienced or would want to. i hope some of these problems got captured.
  • sliken 6y ago
    Cool, I think mine was a few generations/years before the r7800, glad to see it's improved. Don't remember if I opened a ticket or talked to one of the devs on a irc channel. The dhcpdv6 daemon or similar would accept an IP from comcast, but not a /64 delegation. With the new binary it worked fine. Ah, yeah, mine was the ac1900 chipset, the r7800 is the newer ac2600.