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The hardware was refurbished, including a quick analysis of the equipment. I quickly realized that modern and up-to-date network firewall firmware could be installed on both devices without much effort and high costs. Since #BSDRP , #OPNSense and #pfSense no longer support x86 (i586/i686) architectures, the choice fell on the current #OpenWrt and #DDWRT versions for x86 (i586/i686) architectures. 2/3

Managing Network Devices via #Orgmode Table and #OpenWRT Router
karl-voit.at/2025/04/18/openwr

I do maintain only one single table with all of my devices. I can control their IP and their ability to connect to the Internet (or not).

With this table, I do have a great overview of my devices and their IPs.

I thought you might like the idea ...

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My biggest issue with #OpenWRT so far is the upgrade process. As in, keeping the OS up to date. The package manager's upgrade functionality, which is fully baked into the OS and its GUI web interface, prominently displays a warning at the top that tells you not to use it. Don't upgrade packages, it can and will break your system: openwrt.org/meta/infobox/upgra

Okay, then why is that feature baked into the OS at all?

Meanwhile, the sysupgrade feature, which is the recommended way to keep the OS up to date, is also baked into the OS, but only at the cli level. If you want to use the GUI web interface, you need to manually install the attended-sysupgrade package, after which point you can manually re-flash the OS whenever you want to using up to date packages, provided that you also (somehow) keep up to date about their releases without the use of a real tool to check for updates using the GUI. Why isn't that baked into the OS instead?

The whole thing is just very confusing.

openwrt.org[OpenWrt Wiki] Upgrading packages may cause serious problems, including soft-bricking your device!

Mein selbst zusammen-gehacktes/kompiliertes #OpenWrt für den TP-Link WR841 v10 mit 16 MB Flash (statt vom Hersteller 4 MB) geht leider ständig in eine #Bootloop und startet nicht richtig, vermutlich weil es es das root-Dateisystem unter /dev/mtdblock4 nicht mounten kann.

Zurücksetzen/Reset hab ich schon mehrfach probiert;
- OpenWrt mit sysupgrade neu installieren
- mit firstboot alles resetten.
Hat nix gebracht.

Kann mir da jemand helfen?

Im #Failsafe-Modus kann ich es zum Glück starten.

Also getting my #rtl83xx switch #Linux kernel code changes more and more into a style shape that I start to like, that looks more upstreamable to me.
Sometimes I see can see that some code looks ugly, but might have some difficulties to come up with a solution that is more "pretty"/readable. I have some judgement for aesthetics, I think, but I'm sometimes lacking a bit of creativity for aesthetics in general. Aesthetics has such a huge search space, too many possibilities :D. #OpenWrt