I have an EdgeRouter 4 installed at a family members house along with a few Unifi nanoHD access points. The WAPs have been flashed with OpenWrt and work great. I'm considering flashing the router with OpenWrt. Reasons are many, EoL Debian and general Ubiquiti nonsense (face palm). They're all hand-me-downs from my home network. That's a separate discussion...
Anyone have any experience with OpenWrt on the EdgeRouter 4 (or 6 or 12)? Looks straight forward to flash. I gather that HW offload isn't supported, not sure if that's for ideological reasons or other reasons. Shouldn't be an issue in this case. 300/20 Comcast xfiniti. It is a router on a stick configuration but only very light inter-vlan routing (DNS traffic to a pihole and printers). I also have smart queuing setup to manage buffer bloat, same or better appear to be available with OpenWRT. OpenWrt forum posts on this particular router are thin, maybe that's good
Anyhow, any thoughts or experiences you may share to help me purge myself of the last bit of Ubiquiti firmware I have to mess with would be enormously appreciated.
Anyone have any experience with OpenWrt on the EdgeRouter 4 (or 6 or 12)? Looks straight forward to flash. I gather that HW offload isn't supported, not sure if that's for ideological reasons or other reasons. Shouldn't be an issue in this case. 300/20 Comcast xfiniti. It is a router on a stick configuration but only very light inter-vlan routing (DNS traffic to a pihole and printers). I also have smart queuing setup to manage buffer bloat, same or better appear to be available with OpenWRT. OpenWrt forum posts on this particular router are thin, maybe that's good
Anyhow, any thoughts or experiences you may share to help me purge myself of the last bit of Ubiquiti firmware I have to mess with would be enormously appreciated.
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