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Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730

#HackerNews #Indoor #Wi-Fi #Roaming #OpenWRT #Networking #Technology #Wireless

Never heard about GL.iNet before but their new travel router (Mudi 7) is a really solid device as far as I can tell after initial setup and poking around a bit. Based on #OpenWRT and full of really comprehensive configuration options. 5G, WiFi repeater, 2.5G LAN, replaceable battery, #OpenVPN and #Wireguard out of the box and a lot more stuff. Rather expensive but you get a lot for your money. We’ll see how it holds up in the coming months.

Never heard about GL.iNet before but their new travel router (Mudi 7) is a really solid device as far as I can tell after initial setup and poking around a bit. Based on #OpenWRT and full of really comprehensive configuration options. 5G, WiFi repeater, 2.5G LAN, replaceable battery, #OpenVPN and #Wireguard out of the box and a lot more stuff. Rather expensive but you get a lot for your money. We’ll see how it holds up in the coming months.

Never heard about GL.iNet before but their new travel router (Mudi 7) is a really solid device as far as I can tell after initial setup and poking around a bit. Based on #OpenWRT and full of really comprehensive configuration options. 5G, WiFi repeater, 2.5G LAN, replaceable battery, #OpenVPN and #Wireguard out of the box and a lot more stuff. Rather expensive but you get a lot for your money. We’ll see how it holds up in the coming months.

Never heard about GL.iNet before but their new travel router (Mudi 7) is a really solid device as far as I can tell after initial setup and poking around a bit. Based on #OpenWRT and full of really comprehensive configuration options. 5G, WiFi repeater, 2.5G LAN, replaceable battery, #OpenVPN and #Wireguard out of the box and a lot more stuff. Rather expensive but you get a lot for your money. We’ll see how it holds up in the coming months.

Never heard about GL.iNet before but their new travel router (Mudi 7) is a really solid device as far as I can tell after initial setup and poking around a bit. Based on #OpenWRT and full of really comprehensive configuration options. 5G, WiFi repeater, 2.5G LAN, replaceable battery, #OpenVPN and #Wireguard out of the box and a lot more stuff. Rather expensive but you get a lot for your money. We’ll see how it holds up in the coming months.

How the Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Violates the First Rule of OpenWRT Club

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/22/how-the-banana-pi-bpi-r4-pro-violates-the-first-rule-of-openwrt-club/

How the Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Violates the First Rule of OpenWRT Club

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/22/how-the-banana-pi-bpi-r4-pro-violates-the-first-rule-of-openwrt-club/

TIL : how to submit a kernel patch
#kernel #OpenWrt

DoH на роутере OpenWRT, Mikrotik и Asus: пошаговая инструкция от того, кто сам хостит резолвер

Если коротко, DNS это последний открытый протокол в вашей сети, по которому провайдер (и любой джентльмен в кафе на open WiFi) видит, куда вы ходите. HTTPS закрыли, SNI потихоньку прячут через ECH, а DNS как был в плейне на 53-м порту, так в большинстве домашних сетей и остался. DoH (DNS over HTTPS) это лечит, но не на устройстве, а на роутере, чтобы один раз настроил и забыл про все смартфоны, тостеры и умные лампочки. Я три месяца пилю свой DNS-резолвер с фильтрацией и за это время насмотрелся на чужие конфиги достаточно, чтобы написать инструкцию без воды. Разберу OpenWRT, Mikrotik (RouterOS 7+) и Asus с Merlin, плюс подводные камни, в которые я лично наступил.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035612/

#DoH #OpenWRT #Mikrotik #RouterOS #AsuswrtMerlin #dnsmasq #httpsdnsproxy #DNSoverHTTPS #роутер #privacy

DoH на роутере OpenWRT, Mikrotik и Asus: пошаговая инструкция от того, кто сам хостит резолвер

Если коротко, DNS это последний открытый протокол в вашей сети, по которому провайдер (и любой джентльмен в кафе на open WiFi) видит, куда вы ходите. HTTPS закрыли, SNI потихоньку прячут через ECH, а DNS как был в плейне на 53-м порту, так в большинстве домашних сетей и остался. DoH (DNS over HTTPS) это лечит, но не на устройстве, а на роутере, чтобы один раз настроил и забыл про все смартфоны, тостеры и умные лампочки. Я три месяца пилю свой DNS-резолвер с фильтрацией и за это время насмотрелся на чужие конфиги достаточно, чтобы написать инструкцию без воды. Разберу OpenWRT, Mikrotik (RouterOS 7+) и Asus с Merlin, плюс подводные камни, в которые я лично наступил.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035612/

#DoH #OpenWRT #Mikrotik #RouterOS #AsuswrtMerlin #dnsmasq #httpsdnsproxy #DNSoverHTTPS #роутер #privacy

DoH на роутере OpenWRT, Mikrotik и Asus: пошаговая инструкция от того, кто сам хостит резолвер

Если коротко, DNS это последний открытый протокол в вашей сети, по которому провайдер (и любой джентльмен в кафе на open WiFi) видит, куда вы ходите. HTTPS закрыли, SNI потихоньку прячут через ECH, а DNS как был в плейне на 53-м порту, так в большинстве домашних сетей и остался. DoH (DNS over HTTPS) это лечит, но не на устройстве, а на роутере, чтобы один раз настроил и забыл про все смартфоны, тостеры и умные лампочки. Я три месяца пилю свой DNS-резолвер с фильтрацией и за это время насмотрелся на чужие конфиги достаточно, чтобы написать инструкцию без воды. Разберу OpenWRT, Mikrotik (RouterOS 7+) и Asus с Merlin, плюс подводные камни, в которые я лично наступил.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035612/

#DoH #OpenWRT #Mikrotik #RouterOS #AsuswrtMerlin #dnsmasq #httpsdnsproxy #DNSoverHTTPS #роутер #privacy

DoH на роутере OpenWRT, Mikrotik и Asus: пошаговая инструкция от того, кто сам хостит резолвер

Если коротко, DNS это последний открытый протокол в вашей сети, по которому провайдер (и любой джентльмен в кафе на open WiFi) видит, куда вы ходите. HTTPS закрыли, SNI потихоньку прячут через ECH, а DNS как был в плейне на 53-м порту, так в большинстве домашних сетей и остался. DoH (DNS over HTTPS) это лечит, но не на устройстве, а на роутере, чтобы один раз настроил и забыл про все смартфоны, тостеры и умные лампочки. Я три месяца пилю свой DNS-резолвер с фильтрацией и за это время насмотрелся на чужие конфиги достаточно, чтобы написать инструкцию без воды. Разберу OpenWRT, Mikrotik (RouterOS 7+) и Asus с Merlin, плюс подводные камни, в которые я лично наступил.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035612/

#DoH #OpenWRT #Mikrotik #RouterOS #AsuswrtMerlin #dnsmasq #httpsdnsproxy #DNSoverHTTPS #роутер #privacy

Historical signal records 🔥

#Mudi7 #OpenWRT #GLiNetRouter

Historical signal records 🔥

#Mudi7 #OpenWRT #GLiNetRouter

Historical signal records 🔥

#Mudi7 #OpenWRT #GLiNetRouter

Historical signal records 🔥

#Mudi7 #OpenWRT #GLiNetRouter

Historical signal records 🔥

#Mudi7 #OpenWRT #GLiNetRouter

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro reminds me a lot of the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus. It is a piece of fantastically neat, powerful hardware with

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro: Build Guide And Setup Ft. Forbidden OpenWRT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6f_sJP-0ZE

Back in 2024 Banana Pi sent over their BPI-R4 and I spent a few days sorting out how to get OpenWRT up and running on it. For the most part things technically functioned, and two years later it’s matured into a solid DIY router board with full OpenWRT support.

Welp, Banana Pi is back with an upgraded version sporting quad 2.5 gigabit, dual 10 gig copper/fibre for LAN and WAN, and a lonely 1 gigabit port for old times’ sake. Better yet, there’s a USB-C serial port on the back so I don’t have to go digging through the cable bin for a UART adapter.

Unfortunately it’s only been on the market for seven-ish months, so we’re still quite a ways out from having OpenWRT support. But that’s not going to stop me from downloading HackedUpTechDemoWRT™ from Banana Pi and slinging a couple of databits through it.

You know, for science.

HARDWARE

Under the hood there’s the same quad core Arm Cortex-A73 MediaTek MT7988A found in the BPI-R4, but the RAM has been bumped to 8 GB. You also get three M.2 B key slots for 4 & 5G modules, plus two M.2 M key slots for NVMe drives.

And there’s a new case. It’s like the old one, but bigger.

FORBIDDEN OPENWRT

I can’t stress this enough, the version of OpenWRT from Banana Pi is not something you want running your home network. Banana Pi is in the business of making SBCs, not assembling and maintaining secure builds of OpenWRT.

What’s available on Google Drive should be treated as a tech demo to verify hardware functionality, nothing more.

EMMC INSTALL

With that said, let’s get it installed to eMMC by booting from an SD card, installing to NAND, then booting from NAND and installing to eMMC.

Up first, grab the *.zip from Google Drive, extract the zips inside the zip, and write the SD image to an SD card. Then flip both DIP switches to the down position and pop in it the back.

Now format a USB flash drive as FAT32, create two directories, EMMC and NAND, and copy over the contents of the EMMC and SNAND folders to the newly created directories on the USB flash drive. Then slide that business into a USB hole.

Time to stab the BPI-R4 Pro with a USB-C cable, crack open a copy of minicom, set the serial device to ttyACM0, and apply the electrons.

First up, is mounting the USB flash drive.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/NAND

Track down where NAND is hanging out.

cat /proc/mtd

Mine is on mtd3, so let’s go ahead and erase it.

mtd erase /dev/mtd3

Write the image to NAND.

mtd write *.bin /dev/mtd3

Power down the system, flip the dips to 1 up and 2 down and reapply the electrons.

Back at the console, mount the USB flash drive.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/EMMC

Disable the write protection on an eMMC boot partition.

echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro

Write the preloader.

dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-MT76-emmc-preloader.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot0

Write the image.

dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-BE14-MT76-OpenWRT24.10-DSA-emmc-251229.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

All that’s left to do is enable booting from the eMMC partition.

mmc bootpart enable 1 1 /dev/mmcblk0

Power down and one more trip to the dips. This time it’s 1 down and 2 up.

Reapply the electrons, and after a bit of a wait you’ll boot into Forbidden OpenWRT running from eMMC.

LUCI WEB INTERFACE

Here we’re logged into LuCI, and short and sweet: we can see the 8 GB of memory, and 300 MB out of the 8 GB of eMMC is available. But it does see the NVMe drive I snuck in there, so there’s that.

Ports are porting, and it looks like the 2G, 5G, and 6G radios are up. Neat.

Outside of that, not much to poke at, because there’s zero chance I’m running forbidden OpenWRT on my network.

IPERF3 SPEED TESTS

I wanted to sling some databits through this critter, so I used iperf3 with the --bidir flag. Hardly scientific, but it at least lets me know if the ports are working.

All of the 2.5 gig ports came up Milhouse, with 2.3 on the send and 2.2 on the receive.

Both the 10 gig copper and fibre ports were a bit of a mess, with 9.2 on the send and 5.0 on the way back. Don’t know what’s going on here, flapping?

THERMALS AND POWER

I tried my darndest to cook the MediaTek SoC using stress-ng, but even with the passive cooler I couldn’t get it to crack 55 C under load.

And electron vampirism is about what you would expect from an SBC with 7 RJ45 ports, two SFP+, and a WiFi 7 card attached. Around 11 W at idle and just a smidge over 13 W under load.

DISK SPEED

If you’re wondering what 1 lane of PCIe 3.0 attached to an NVMe looks like, it tops out at around 800 MB/s, which is a little under the theoretical max of ~985 MB/s. But come on, this is a router.

VERDICT

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro reminds me a lot of the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus. It is a piece of fantastically neat, powerful hardware with absolutely no software to take advantage of it. It is the kind of board you unbox, tinker with for an afternoon, pack away, and set a calendar reminder to check back on in a year.

Alright, I shouldn’t say there is absolutely no software. Frank has a nice version of Debian 13 you can build, but nobody’s dropping BPI-R4 Pro money just to run standard Debian.

I’ll be keeping an eye on the OpenWRT pull request because this critter has the potential to become the single most no kill like overkill router I’ve ever owned. Once things are in a workable state I want to circle back, swap out the MikroTik 4011 in the studio, and somehow convince this critter to host my community x86 Trackmania server… while also doing the router thing.

LINKS

All links in this article go directly to the sources they reference. There are no affiliate links or unrelated backlinks. If you would like to support my work on Interfacing Linux, you can use the affiliate links below or check out the sponsors page.

This helps fund future projects and keeps the site ad-free.

• BPI-R4 Pro Kit on AliExpress
• BPI-R4 Pro on AliExpress

Some posts contain affiliate links. If you click on an affiliate link and later make a purchase, I may receive a small commission. Money earned via affiliate links helps to keep this site up and running.

Have questions about your Linux setup? Ask in the forums.

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro reminds me a lot of the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus. It is a piece of fantastically neat, powerful hardware with

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro: Build Guide And Setup Ft. Forbidden OpenWRT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6f_sJP-0ZE

Back in 2024 Banana Pi sent over their BPI-R4 and I spent a few days sorting out how to get OpenWRT up and running on it. For the most part things technically functioned, and two years later it’s matured into a solid DIY router board with full OpenWRT support.

Welp, Banana Pi is back with an upgraded version sporting quad 2.5 gigabit, dual 10 gig copper/fibre for LAN and WAN, and a lonely 1 gigabit port for old times’ sake. Better yet, there’s a USB-C serial port on the back so I don’t have to go digging through the cable bin for a UART adapter.

Unfortunately it’s only been on the market for seven-ish months, so we’re still quite a ways out from having OpenWRT support. But that’s not going to stop me from downloading HackedUpTechDemoWRT™ from Banana Pi and slinging a couple of databits through it.

You know, for science.

HARDWARE

Under the hood there’s the same quad core Arm Cortex-A73 MediaTek MT7988A found in the BPI-R4, but the RAM has been bumped to 8 GB. You also get three M.2 B key slots for 4 & 5G modules, plus two M.2 M key slots for NVMe drives.

And there’s a new case. It’s like the old one, but bigger.

FORBIDDEN OPENWRT

I can’t stress this enough, the version of OpenWRT from Banana Pi is not something you want running your home network. Banana Pi is in the business of making SBCs, not assembling and maintaining secure builds of OpenWRT.

What’s available on Google Drive should be treated as a tech demo to verify hardware functionality, nothing more.

EMMC INSTALL

With that said, let’s get it installed to eMMC by booting from an SD card, installing to NAND, then booting from NAND and installing to eMMC.

Up first, grab the *.zip from Google Drive, extract the zips inside the zip, and write the SD image to an SD card. Then flip both DIP switches to the down position and pop in it the back.

Now format a USB flash drive as FAT32, create two directories, EMMC and NAND, and copy over the contents of the EMMC and SNAND folders to the newly created directories on the USB flash drive. Then slide that business into a USB hole.

Time to stab the BPI-R4 Pro with a USB-C cable, crack open a copy of minicom, set the serial device to ttyACM0, and apply the electrons.

First up, is mounting the USB flash drive.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/NAND

Track down where NAND is hanging out.

cat /proc/mtd

Mine is on mtd3, so let’s go ahead and erase it.

mtd erase /dev/mtd3

Write the image to NAND.

mtd write *.bin /dev/mtd3

Power down the system, flip the dips to 1 up and 2 down and reapply the electrons.

Back at the console, mount the USB flash drive.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/EMMC

Disable the write protection on an eMMC boot partition.

echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro

Write the preloader.

dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-MT76-emmc-preloader.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot0

Write the image.

dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-BE14-MT76-OpenWRT24.10-DSA-emmc-251229.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

All that’s left to do is enable booting from the eMMC partition.

mmc bootpart enable 1 1 /dev/mmcblk0

Power down and one more trip to the dips. This time it’s 1 down and 2 up.

Reapply the electrons, and after a bit of a wait you’ll boot into Forbidden OpenWRT running from eMMC.

LUCI WEB INTERFACE

Here we’re logged into LuCI, and short and sweet: we can see the 8 GB of memory, and 300 MB out of the 8 GB of eMMC is available. But it does see the NVMe drive I snuck in there, so there’s that.

Ports are porting, and it looks like the 2G, 5G, and 6G radios are up. Neat.

Outside of that, not much to poke at, because there’s zero chance I’m running forbidden OpenWRT on my network.

IPERF3 SPEED TESTS

I wanted to sling some databits through this critter, so I used iperf3 with the --bidir flag. Hardly scientific, but it at least lets me know if the ports are working.

All of the 2.5 gig ports came up Milhouse, with 2.3 on the send and 2.2 on the receive.

Both the 10 gig copper and fibre ports were a bit of a mess, with 9.2 on the send and 5.0 on the way back. Don’t know what’s going on here, flapping?

THERMALS AND POWER

I tried my darndest to cook the MediaTek SoC using stress-ng, but even with the passive cooler I couldn’t get it to crack 55 C under load.

And electron vampirism is about what you would expect from an SBC with 7 RJ45 ports, two SFP+, and a WiFi 7 card attached. Around 11 W at idle and just a smidge over 13 W under load.

DISK SPEED

If you’re wondering what 1 lane of PCIe 3.0 attached to an NVMe looks like, it tops out at around 800 MB/s, which is a little under the theoretical max of ~985 MB/s. But come on, this is a router.

VERDICT

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro reminds me a lot of the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus. It is a piece of fantastically neat, powerful hardware with absolutely no software to take advantage of it. It is the kind of board you unbox, tinker with for an afternoon, pack away, and set a calendar reminder to check back on in a year.

Alright, I shouldn’t say there is absolutely no software. Frank has a nice version of Debian 13 you can build, but nobody’s dropping BPI-R4 Pro money just to run standard Debian.

I’ll be keeping an eye on the OpenWRT pull request because this critter has the potential to become the single most no kill like overkill router I’ve ever owned. Once things are in a workable state I want to circle back, swap out the MikroTik 4011 in the studio, and somehow convince this critter to host my community x86 Trackmania server… while also doing the router thing.

LINKS

All links in this article go directly to the sources they reference. There are no affiliate links or unrelated backlinks. If you would like to support my work on Interfacing Linux, you can use the affiliate links below or check out the sponsors page.

This helps fund future projects and keeps the site ad-free.

• BPI-R4 Pro Kit on AliExpress
• BPI-R4 Pro on AliExpress

Some posts contain affiliate links. If you click on an affiliate link and later make a purchase, I may receive a small commission. Money earned via affiliate links helps to keep this site up and running.

Have questions about your Linux setup? Ask in the forums.

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro: Build Guide And Setup Ft. Forbidden OpenWRT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6f_sJP-0ZE

Back in 2024 Banana Pi sent over their BPI-R4 and I spent a few days sorting out how to get OpenWRT up and running on it. For the most part things technically functioned, and two years later it’s matured into a solid DIY router board with full OpenWRT support.

Welp, Banana Pi is back with an upgraded version sporting quad 2.5 gigabit, dual 10 gig copper/fibre for LAN and WAN, and a lonely 1 gigabit port for old times’ sake. Better yet, there’s a USB-C serial port on the back so I don’t have to go digging through the cable bin for a UART adapter.

Unfortunately it’s only been on the market for seven-ish months, so we’re still quite a ways out from having OpenWRT support. But that’s not going to stop me from downloading HackedUpTechDemoWRT™ from Banana Pi and slinging a couple of databits through it.

You know, for science.

HARDWARE

Under the hood there’s the same quad core Arm Cortex-A73 MediaTek MT7988A found in the BPI-R4, but the RAM has been bumped to 8 GB. You also get three M.2 B key slots for 4 & 5G modules, plus two M.2 M key slots for NVMe drives.

And there’s a new case. It’s like the old one, but bigger.

FORBIDDEN OPENWRT

I can’t stress this enough, the version of OpenWRT from Banana Pi is not something you want running your home network. Banana Pi is in the business of making SBCs, not assembling and maintaining secure builds of OpenWRT.

What’s available on Google Drive should be treated as a tech demo to verify hardware functionality, nothing more.

EMMC INSTALL

With that said, let’s get it installed to eMMC by booting from an SD card, installing to NAND, then booting from NAND and installing to eMMC.

Up first, grab the *.zip from Google Drive, extract the zips inside the zip, and write the SD image to an SD card. Then flip both DIP switches to the down position and pop in it the back.

Now format a USB flash drive as FAT32, create two directories, EMMC and NAND, and copy over the contents of the EMMC and SNAND folders to the newly created directories on the USB flash drive. Then slide that business into a USB hole.

Time to stab the BPI-R4 Pro with a USB-C cable, crack open a copy of minicom, set the serial device to ttyACM0, and apply the electrons.

First up, is mounting the USB flash drive.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/NAND

Track down where NAND is hanging out.

cat /proc/mtd

Mine is on mtd3, so let’s go ahead and erase it.

mtd erase /dev/mtd3

Write the image to NAND.

mtd write *.bin /dev/mtd3

Power down the system, flip the dips to 1 up and 2 down and reapply the electrons.

Back at the console, mount the USB flash drive.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/EMMC

Disable the write protection on an eMMC boot partition.

echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro

Write the preloader.

dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-MT76-emmc-preloader.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot0

Write the image.

dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-BE14-MT76-OpenWRT24.10-DSA-emmc-251229.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

All that’s left to do is enable booting from the eMMC partition.

mmc bootpart enable 1 1 /dev/mmcblk0

Power down and one more trip to the dips. This time it’s 1 down and 2 up.

Reapply the electrons, and after a bit of a wait you’ll boot into Forbidden OpenWRT running from eMMC.

LUCI WEB INTERFACE

Here we’re logged into LuCI, and short and sweet: we can see the 8 GB of memory, and 300 MB out of the 8 GB of eMMC is available. But it does see the NVMe drive I snuck in there, so there’s that.

Ports are porting, and it looks like the 2G, 5G, and 6G radios are up. Neat.

Outside of that, not much to poke at, because there’s zero chance I’m running forbidden OpenWRT on my network.

IPERF3 SPEED TESTS

I wanted to sling some databits through this critter, so I used iperf3 with the --bidir flag. Hardly scientific, but it at least lets me know if the ports are working.

All of the 2.5 gig ports came up Milhouse, with 2.3 on the send and 2.2 on the receive.

Both the 10 gig copper and fibre ports were a bit of a mess, with 9.2 on the send and 5.0 on the way back. Don’t know what’s going on here, flapping?

THERMALS AND POWER

I tried my darndest to cook the MediaTek SoC using stress-ng, but even with the passive cooler I couldn’t get it to crack 55 C under load.

And electron vampirism is about what you would expect from an SBC with 7 RJ45 ports, two SFP+, and a WiFi 7 card attached. Around 11 W at idle and just a smidge over 13 W under load.

DISK SPEED

If you’re wondering what 1 lane of PCIe 3.0 attached to an NVMe looks like, it tops out at around 800 MB/s, which is a little under the theoretical max of ~985 MB/s. But come on, this is a router.

VERDICT

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro reminds me a lot of the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus. It is a piece of fantastically neat, powerful hardware with absolutely no software to take advantage of it. It is the kind of board you unbox, tinker with for an afternoon, pack away, and set a calendar reminder to check back on in a year.

Alright, I shouldn’t say there is absolutely no software. Frank has a nice version of Debian 13 you can build, but nobody’s dropping BPI-R4 Pro money just to run standard Debian.

I’ll be keeping an eye on the OpenWRT pull request because this critter has the potential to become the single most no kill like overkill router I’ve ever owned. Once things are in a workable state I want to circle back, swap out the MikroTik 4011 in the studio, and somehow convince this critter to host my community x86 Trackmania server… while also doing the router thing.

LINKS

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Semtech FX86E – A Compact 5G RedCap and 4G LTE modem for industrial IoT applications

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/18/semtech-fx86e-a-compact-5g-redcap-and-4g-lte-modem-for-industrial-iot-applications/

Обход блокировок на OpenWRT с помощью HomeProxy-hiddify (hiddify-core) и баз GeoIP, Geosite Re:filter

Это гайд по настройке через UI русифицированного приложения для OpenWRT с hiddify-core - HomeProxy Hiddify , он позволяет настроить подключение к NaiveProxy, Mieru, ShadowTLS, Hysteria2, XRay, VLESS (XHTTP), VMESS, Trojan, TUIC и иным протоколам которые поддерживает Hiddify App в т.ч. с помощью подписок (subscription). В статье рассмотрим установку и настройку приложения для раздельного туннелирования на примере списков Re:filter

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1036064/

#openwrt #блокировки #singbox #subscriptions #split_tunneling #hysteria2 #hiddify #раздельное_туннелирование #подписки #xhttp

Обход блокировок на OpenWRT с помощью HomeProxy-hiddify (hiddify-core) и баз GeoIP, Geosite Re:filter

Это гайд по настройке через UI русифицированного приложения для OpenWRT с hiddify-core - HomeProxy Hiddify , он позволяет настроить подключение к NaiveProxy, Mieru, ShadowTLS, Hysteria2, XRay, VLESS (XHTTP), VMESS, Trojan, TUIC и иным протоколам которые поддерживает Hiddify App в т.ч. с помощью подписок (subscription). В статье рассмотрим установку и настройку приложения для раздельного туннелирования на примере списков Re:filter

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1036064/

#openwrt #блокировки #singbox #subscriptions #split_tunneling #hysteria2 #hiddify #раздельное_туннелирование #подписки #xhttp

Обход блокировок на OpenWRT с помощью HomeProxy-hiddify (hiddify-core) и баз GeoIP, Geosite Re:filter

Это гайд по настройке через UI русифицированного приложения для OpenWRT с hiddify-core - HomeProxy Hiddify , он позволяет настроить подключение к NaiveProxy, Mieru, ShadowTLS, Hysteria2, XRay, VLESS (XHTTP), VMESS, Trojan, TUIC и иным протоколам которые поддерживает Hiddify App в т.ч. с помощью подписок (subscription). В статье рассмотрим установку и настройку приложения для раздельного туннелирования на примере списков Re:filter

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1036064/

#openwrt #блокировки #singbox #subscriptions #split_tunneling #hysteria2 #hiddify #раздельное_туннелирование #подписки #xhttp

Обход блокировок на OpenWRT с помощью HomeProxy-hiddify (hiddify-core) и баз GeoIP, Geosite Re:filter

Это гайд по настройке через UI русифицированного приложения для OpenWRT с hiddify-core - HomeProxy Hiddify , он позволяет настроить подключение к NaiveProxy, Mieru, ShadowTLS, Hysteria2, XRay, VLESS (XHTTP), VMESS, Trojan, TUIC и иным протоколам которые поддерживает Hiddify App в т.ч. с помощью подписок (subscription). В статье рассмотрим установку и настройку приложения для раздельного туннелирования на примере списков Re:filter

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1036064/

#openwrt #блокировки #singbox #subscriptions #split_tunneling #hysteria2 #hiddify #раздельное_туннелирование #подписки #xhttp

Постов давно не было, особенно "по делу", поэтому решил составить сводку. Возможно что-то упустил, дел было много.

1. Свежачок. Только что протянули кабель гигабитный от провайдера. Тариф поменял с 80 Мбит/с до 300 Мбит/с (IP статика?), скорость нужна была повыше и родственники постоянно жаловались. Следующим на апгрейд пойдёт роутер. Планирую также докупить какой-нибудь ещё, мини (мало места и быстрый для 1-4 клиентов, для себя в основном), чисто под OpenWRT играться, всякие "альтернативные подключения" настраивать напрямую, подключать к нему по USB 3.0, стоять будет у меня а комнате, пока смотрю на Huasifei WH3000 Pro и Сudy ТR3000. Основной роутер тоже планировал Cudy взять (USB не помешает, сама стоковая прошивка меня чем-то цепляет), но пока непонятно как с нагревом и дальностью сигнала, мой TP-Link Archer AX1800 не может до кухни и гостиной дотянуться, хотя тут скорее нужна Mesh сеть небольшая для удобства. Надо подумать.

Продолжение будет в треде.

#openwrt #cudy #tplink

Постов давно не было, особенно "по делу", поэтому решил составить сводку. Возможно что-то упустил, дел было много.

1. Свежачок. Только что протянули кабель гигабитный от провайдера. Тариф поменял с 80 Мбит/с до 300 Мбит/с (IP статика?), скорость нужна была повыше и родственники постоянно жаловались. Следующим на апгрейд пойдёт роутер. Планирую также докупить какой-нибудь ещё, мини (мало места и быстрый для 1-4 клиентов, для себя в основном), чисто под OpenWRT играться, всякие "альтернативные подключения" настраивать напрямую, подключать к нему по USB 3.0, стоять будет у меня а комнате, пока смотрю на Huasifei WH3000 Pro и Сudy ТR3000. Основной роутер тоже планировал Cudy взять (USB не помешает, сама стоковая прошивка меня чем-то цепляет), но пока непонятно как с нагревом и дальностью сигнала, мой TP-Link Archer AX1800 не может до кухни и гостиной дотянуться, хотя тут скорее нужна Mesh сеть небольшая для удобства. Надо подумать.

Продолжение будет в треде.

#openwrt #cudy #tplink

Постов давно не было, особенно "по делу", поэтому решил составить сводку. Возможно что-то упустил, дел было много.

1. Свежачок. Только что протянули кабель гигабитный от провайдера. Тариф поменял с 80 Мбит/с до 300 Мбит/с (IP статика?), скорость нужна была повыше и родственники постоянно жаловались. Следующим на апгрейд пойдёт роутер. Планирую также докупить какой-нибудь ещё, мини (мало места и быстрый для 1-4 клиентов, для себя в основном), чисто под OpenWRT играться, всякие "альтернативные подключения" настраивать напрямую, подключать к нему по USB 3.0, стоять будет у меня а комнате, пока смотрю на Huasifei WH3000 Pro и Сudy ТR3000. Основной роутер тоже планировал Cudy взять (USB не помешает, сама стоковая прошивка меня чем-то цепляет), но пока непонятно как с нагревом и дальностью сигнала, мой TP-Link Archer AX1800 не может до кухни и гостиной дотянуться, хотя тут скорее нужна Mesh сеть небольшая для удобства. Надо подумать.

Продолжение будет в треде.

#openwrt #cudy #tplink

Постов давно не было, особенно "по делу", поэтому решил составить сводку. Возможно что-то упустил, дел было много.

1. Свежачок. Только что протянули кабель гигабитный от провайдера. Тариф поменял с 80 Мбит/с до 300 Мбит/с (IP статика?), скорость нужна была повыше и родственники постоянно жаловались. Следующим на апгрейд пойдёт роутер. Планирую также докупить какой-нибудь ещё, мини (мало места и быстрый для 1-4 клиентов, для себя в основном), чисто под OpenWRT играться, всякие "альтернативные подключения" настраивать напрямую, подключать к нему по USB 3.0, стоять будет у меня а комнате, пока смотрю на Huasifei WH3000 Pro и Сudy ТR3000. Основной роутер тоже планировал Cudy взять (USB не помешает, сама стоковая прошивка меня чем-то цепляет), но пока непонятно как с нагревом и дальностью сигнала, мой TP-Link Archer AX1800 не может до кухни и гостиной дотянуться, хотя тут скорее нужна Mesh сеть небольшая для удобства. Надо подумать.

Продолжение будет в треде.

#openwrt #cudy #tplink

Постов давно не было, особенно "по делу", поэтому решил составить сводку. Возможно что-то упустил, дел было много.

1. Свежачок. Только что протянули кабель гигабитный от провайдера. Тариф поменял с 80 Мбит/с до 300 Мбит/с (IP статика?), скорость нужна была повыше и родственники постоянно жаловались. Следующим на апгрейд пойдёт роутер. Планирую также докупить какой-нибудь ещё, мини (мало места и быстрый для 1-4 клиентов, для себя в основном), чисто под OpenWRT играться, всякие "альтернативные подключения" настраивать напрямую, подключать к нему по USB 3.0, стоять будет у меня а комнате, пока смотрю на Huasifei WH3000 Pro и Сudy ТR3000. Основной роутер тоже планировал Cudy взять (USB не помешает, сама стоковая прошивка меня чем-то цепляет), но пока непонятно как с нагревом и дальностью сигнала, мой TP-Link Archer AX1800 не может до кухни и гостиной дотянуться, хотя тут скорее нужна Mesh сеть небольшая для удобства. Надо подумать.

Продолжение будет в треде.

#openwrt #cudy #tplink

Yes! #OpenWRT finally has a one click firmware update procedure in LuCi. Not only that, but it actually works perfectly well, kept all my configs and installed packages.

awesome

If I get in the mood for some tech hacking, I am considering putting #OpenWRT on my old unused #Netgear #Orbi units.

When we moved into this house, the cable company installed Plume pods for the mesh wifi. I thought I would wait until they left and put my Orbis in but to my shock, I liked the Plumes.

Because this is a big house, even with three Plume pods there are dead spots. I'm trying to figure out how to get the most bang out of these old Orbis. I have one base station and two satellites. The Plumes are very smart about the ethernet ports. If you plug in an uplink, the pod becomes a repeater. If it has no uplink, the pod becomes a bridge adapter.

The RBW30 satellites have no Ethernet ports so I can't use them as bridges. I wonder if there is some mode they can go in to where they will participate with the Plume mesh. Can OpenWRT even do that? This is a big research topic on which I have a very shaky understanding. Netgear loves telling me how EOL this is so I lose nothing but farting around with them. It just remains to be seen if or how they can be useful.

If I get in the mood for some tech hacking, I am considering putting #OpenWRT on my old unused #Netgear #Orbi units.

When we moved into this house, the cable company installed Plume pods for the mesh wifi. I thought I would wait until they left and put my Orbis in but to my shock, I liked the Plumes.

Because this is a big house, even with three Plume pods there are dead spots. I'm trying to figure out how to get the most bang out of these old Orbis. I have one base station and two satellites. The Plumes are very smart about the ethernet ports. If you plug in an uplink, the pod becomes a repeater. If it has no uplink, the pod becomes a bridge adapter.

The RBW30 satellites have no Ethernet ports so I can't use them as bridges. I wonder if there is some mode they can go in to where they will participate with the Plume mesh. Can OpenWRT even do that? This is a big research topic on which I have a very shaky understanding. Netgear loves telling me how EOL this is so I lose nothing but farting around with them. It just remains to be seen if or how they can be useful.

If I get in the mood for some tech hacking, I am considering putting #OpenWRT on my old unused #Netgear #Orbi units.

When we moved into this house, the cable company installed Plume pods for the mesh wifi. I thought I would wait until they left and put my Orbis in but to my shock, I liked the Plumes.

Because this is a big house, even with three Plume pods there are dead spots. I'm trying to figure out how to get the most bang out of these old Orbis. I have one base station and two satellites. The Plumes are very smart about the ethernet ports. If you plug in an uplink, the pod becomes a repeater. If it has no uplink, the pod becomes a bridge adapter.

The RBW30 satellites have no Ethernet ports so I can't use them as bridges. I wonder if there is some mode they can go in to where they will participate with the Plume mesh. Can OpenWRT even do that? This is a big research topic on which I have a very shaky understanding. Netgear loves telling me how EOL this is so I lose nothing but farting around with them. It just remains to be seen if or how they can be useful.

If I get in the mood for some tech hacking, I am considering putting #OpenWRT on my old unused #Netgear #Orbi units.

When we moved into this house, the cable company installed Plume pods for the mesh wifi. I thought I would wait until they left and put my Orbis in but to my shock, I liked the Plumes.

Because this is a big house, even with three Plume pods there are dead spots. I'm trying to figure out how to get the most bang out of these old Orbis. I have one base station and two satellites. The Plumes are very smart about the ethernet ports. If you plug in an uplink, the pod becomes a repeater. If it has no uplink, the pod becomes a bridge adapter.

The RBW30 satellites have no Ethernet ports so I can't use them as bridges. I wonder if there is some mode they can go in to where they will participate with the Plume mesh. Can OpenWRT even do that? This is a big research topic on which I have a very shaky understanding. Netgear loves telling me how EOL this is so I lose nothing but farting around with them. It just remains to be seen if or how they can be useful.

Wer meine #OpenWrt Videos gesehen und umgesetzt hat, sollte mal ein Update einspielen!
https://www.computerbase.de/news/internet/freies-router-os-openwrt-25-12-4-schliesst-auch-gravierende-sicherheitsluecken.97370/

Freies Router-OS: OpenWrt 25.12.4 schließt auch gravierende Sicherheitslücken https://www.computerbase.de/news/internet/freies-router-os-openwrt-25-12-4-schliesst-auch-gravierende-sicherheitsluecken.97370/ #OpenWrt

Start9 RISC-V Router features SpacemiT K1 SoC, runs StartWRT OpenWrt fork (Crowdfunding)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/15/start9-risc-v-router-features-spacemit-k1-soc-startwrt-openwrt-fork/

Start9 RISC-V Router features SpacemiT K1 SoC, runs StartWRT OpenWrt fork (Crowdfunding)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/15/start9-risc-v-router-features-spacemit-k1-soc-startwrt-openwrt-fork/

✅ Upgrade #openWrt 25.12.3 -> 25.12.4

Das kleine Blaue ist wieder etwas sauberer. Machs gut, #DirtyFrag.

#openWrt-One #security #wlan #PoweredByRSS

forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25…

✅ Upgrade #openWrt 25.12.3 -> 25.12.4

Das kleine Blaue ist wieder etwas sauberer. Machs gut, #DirtyFrag.

#openWrt-One #security #wlan #PoweredByRSS

forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25…

✅ Upgrade #openWrt 25.12.3 -> 25.12.4

Das kleine Blaue ist wieder etwas sauberer. Machs gut, #DirtyFrag.

#openWrt-One #security #wlan #PoweredByRSS

forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25…

✅ Upgrade #openWrt 25.12.3 -> 25.12.4

Das kleine Blaue ist wieder etwas sauberer. Machs gut, #DirtyFrag.

#openWrt-One #security #wlan #PoweredByRSS

forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25…

OpenWrt 25.12.4 - Service Release https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25-12-4-service-release/250171 #openwrt

Pictured is a Gotosocial #ActivityPub server (#Mastodon-compatible), that I've been successfully running for several months now. It's running on the Raspberry Pi 5 (small black box in the background), firewalled behind an #OpenWRT router. This server uses my "Super Owl reverse proxy", where an inexpensive VPS in the cloud acts as the "frontend". The #RaspberryPi 5 "backend" server has *far* more disk space (than the frontend VPS); it has a 500GB NVMe. More info:
https://owleyes.blue/posts/gotosocial-reverse-proxy-with-wireguard/
#InfoSec #SelfHosting

Pictured is a Gotosocial #ActivityPub server (#Mastodon-compatible), that I've been successfully running for several months now. It's running on the Raspberry Pi 5 (small black box in the background), firewalled behind an #OpenWRT router. This server uses my "Super Owl reverse proxy", where an inexpensive VPS in the cloud acts as the "frontend". The #RaspberryPi 5 "backend" server has *far* more disk space (than the frontend VPS); it has a 500GB NVMe. More info:
https://owleyes.blue/posts/gotosocial-reverse-proxy-with-wireguard/
#InfoSec #SelfHosting

This Gotosocial #ActivityPub server (#Mastodon-compatible) is running on the pictured Raspberry Pi 5, firewalled behind an #OpenWRT router. This server uses my "Super Owl reverse proxy", where an inexpensive VPS in the cloud acts as the "frontend". The pictured #RaspberryPi 5 is the "backend" server where gotosocial actually runs, and there's far more disk space - it has a 500GB NVMe. More info:
https://owleyes.blue/posts/gotosocial-reverse-proxy-with-wireguard/
#InfoSec #SelfHosting