OpenWrt Next Generation Ideas

[Fernando Frediani]

Hello there

I also don't have Notion account so will reply here to all can take note 
and discuss. I have basically 2 notes:

1 - One thing that would be interesting to have it by default regarding 
IPv6 is make the router to find out if it received an IPv6 address in 
the WAN interface but not a Prefix Delegation to be installed in the LAN 
and then make it re-configure itself automatically to use NDP Proxy, so 
the /64 prefix in the WAN can be used in the LAN. This is specially 
useful when users end up connecting a secondary router behind the main 
one who connects to the ISP and receives all IPv6 information instead of 
configuring this secondary router as as Bridge or AP mode disabling DHCP 
Server on it.
There are instructions in the wiki to make it possible, so perhaps it is 
just a question to have it by default to happen automatically on these 
scenarios. This way IPv6 is not broken up on many of these scenarios.

2 - It was mentioned there is some lack of testers for certain 
targets/subtargets. While that may be the case that can be stimulated in 
different ways, starting by adjusting the wiki and related documentation 
with more information on how to test properly feedback it to 
maintainers. There may be many cases where people have the hardware and 
is wiling to put the effort but don't know exactly how.
I guess some people may think the only way to contribute to OpenWrt is 
by writing code and doing PRs and that is definitely not the case. There 
is a fair amount of work to be done to test newer hardware and make it 
100% and that sometimes can be a very lengthy and detailed task. If this 
can be ease up with information in the wiki and other ways this 
ecosystem can certainly be enhanced.

Regards
Fernando

On 31/03/2023 06:44, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> These are the ideas I've been thinking about for the future of OpenWrt 
> for a while. It looks complete enough to share it with all of you.
>
> I'm willing to put a great deal of effort to get as much out-of-tree 
> patches on mainline Linux as possible.
>
> You can make a comment on Notion or discuss it here, I'm wondering if 
> the ideas are feasible and how well it would benefit the people 
> maintaining OpenWrt.
>
> https://arinc9.notion.site/OpenWrt-next-gen-ideas-6db745e7584b4823950291c96f2326bb 
>
>
> Arınç
>
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