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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

OpenWRT is cool, but I prefer OPNSense because unlike OpenWRT, you can actually upgrade OPNSense in its UI without requiring linux partition surgery.

[–] pastermil 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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The Linksys WRT3200ACM has A/B firmware support, but unfortunately that router is starting to get a little outdated.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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

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