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Has anyone looked at Ubiquiti's firmware signing? Would it be possible to patch it to retain the drivers and kernel but replace the configuration layers? Being
by brian-armstrong 6y ago
Has anyone looked at Ubiquiti's firmware signing? Would it be possible to patch it to retain the drivers and kernel but replace the configuration layers? Being able to homebrew some config would make the equipment more valuable to us I think.
- gertrunde 6y agoPeople have been running OpenWRT on Ubiquiti gear for quite a long time iirc. [https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/start https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/start]
- Hikikomori 6y agoAfaik performance will be abysmal on edge router series as the npu isn't used.
- KirillPanov 6y agoFrom firsthand experience: performance is in fact awesome on the edgerouters (4, 6, 8, and 12) using plain-vanilla Linux. It's a big honking MIPS chip with firehose connections to the ethernet PHYs. Precisely the kind of device you want for a router.
- Hikikomori 6y agoThen you are better off buying something with a beefier cpu that costs less since it doesn't have an npu.
- joshspankit 6y agoAwesome at what level? Are we talking DPI at 1Gbps symmetric?
- sigg3 6y agoPlease elaborate. What are the thruput measurements on OpenWRT when compared to ER-.. stock firmware, with hw accel or with DPI..? I have an ER-4 to be able to use the entire wan connection, but on stock firmware I must disable DPI to enable hw acceleration (otherwise the thruput floors). I don't use DPI atm, so no big loss. Can you utilize the hw accel in openWRT too?
- adriancr 6y agocouldnt find dream machine support there unfortunately, shame since I have one gathering dust now
- KirillPanov 6y agoUbiquiti does not lock their bootloaders like phone manufacturers do. It is very, very easy to run vanilla Linux (or even OpenBSD) on their hardware. I do exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645062 Octeons (not Octeon-TX) are amazing processors. Ubiquiti makes killer hardware. I hear their software is junk but wouldn't really know since I always erase it immediately after unboxing.
- catblast01 6y ago> An intel goldmont won’t use much more power and can easily do gigabit sqm and wireguard/IPSec without breaking a sweat. Can any of these nearly 2 decade old MIPS/ARM designs come close? I don’t understand the hype for the hardware either.
- jjeaff 6y agoCan you still take advantage of the hardware accelerated features? Because I use a little er-x and if you turn on qos, that disables the hardware acceleration and top speeds are cut considerably.
- rexfuzzle 6y agoAFAIK they've started locking them now, since about v5 if memory serves. Got a couple gathering dust now because of this.
- simple_phrases 6y agoNew equipment checks firmware signatures.
- bscphil 6y agoDo you run Debian on Ubiquiti's access points too?
- cure 6y agoNot with Debian, but I do this routinely with OpenWRT.