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My network home setup – v4.0 | Feb 2023
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I didn't like routeros because it would try to connect to strange ip addresses out of the box.

I like that with openwrt, it doesn't do that, and you can configure all kinds of things just like you want. At first I would use the regular releases and install the packages I wanted. As I got more comfortable with it, I would just build it myself.

It's pretty easy:

   git clone https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt
   cd openwrt
   ./scripts/feeds update -a
   ./scripts/feeds install -a
   make menuconfig
   make -j$(nproc)
make menuconfig is where you choose how your system is configured (packages, kernel modules, config settings, etc)

my initial builds were sort of experimental, but it was kind of fun and eventually I learned to customize exactly what I wanted. For example I would use ipv4 only and strictly control the ip addresses of all my machines. (current openwrt doesn't allow it, you have to turn off ipv6 using sysctl). I configure out wifi/bluetooth from some machines that don't or shouldn't use them. I set up privoxy and some machines do updates through the proxy which whitelists what they can get to. I use vlans, and it keeps traffic segregated well. It's nice to put a weird device on a vlan and know it won't go uploading to the cloud, or update itself without your say so.
OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager | Feb 2020
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And those package repo sha256 checksums are signed and verified with ed25519 by usign and ucert (with a key built into the firmware)

usign: https://git.openwrt.org/project/usign.git

ucert: https://git.openwrt.org/project/ucert.git

Firmware releases are also signed with GPG: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/release_signatu...

openwrt/openwrt: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt

openwrt/packages: https://github.com/openwrt/packages

openwrt/openwrt/search?q="usign" https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/search?q=usign
Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.? | Dec 2016
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Calling the OpenWRT project dead sounds like hyperbole to me. As I write this, both OpenWRT and its package repository have had commits in the last day. That doesn't sound like a dead project to me.

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt https://github.com/openwrt/packages

I get that there is some strife, but calling OpenWRT dead would appear to be very very premature. FWIW I build OpenWRT from source and for the past few months have not been using CVS. I don't know the story behind it, but it looks like all development has moved to Github.