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First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released (sfconservancy.org)

submitted 3 days ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What are you talking about? Upgrading on OpenWRT only takes the new ROM image uploaded thru the Web UI.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The in-place upgrade process leaves a lot to be desired, in my experience. I understand why routers with limited storage capacity wouldn't be able to support it, but the lack of A-B partitioning support for x86 and ARM builds in 2024 is really stupid.

If an upgrade introduces a regression and breaks, my family is stuck without internet while I spend a few hours re-flashing an old release and making sure everything still works.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This, right here, has been my experience every time.

Also when you run a complicated setup with over a dozen VLANs, policy routing for failover internet on specific vlans, and nat66 support due to secondary internet only giving you a /64, yeah... not fun having to set all that up because the updater breaks, yeah.... no.

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The Linksys WRT3200ACM has A/B firmware support, but unfortunately that router is starting to get a little outdated. Saved me from a couple bad upgrades, but unfortunately it died on me about 4 months ago. I updated to the Banana Pi BPI-R3, which has been great for my network speed, but was a lot more complicated to set up.

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I lost all my data from my router trying to update it using the ui and had to reconfigure everything. I use linux for a long time, but openwrt is on another level