[GCC 7.2 BUILD] Optimized TP-Link Archer C7 V2 AC1750 LEDE Firmware

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Hey r00t, thanks for your work. I'm actually testing your build, because i ran in many problems with the lede-build on c7 v2 and i'm really fed up. My biggest issue is an auth-problem with clients. From time to time, clients aren't unable to connect, without a reason.

From what i see, i'm missing a package repository. Would it be possible, that you also build one with your buildchain? Or provide the image-builder?

From what i see, i'm missing freeradius- and zabbix-packages.

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Hi r00t,

Should it be possible to include mwan3 part of the build ? As i have two internet connection, i need this for the load balancing. I will be able to adopt it with such:

For info, i have been trying the latest service release 17.01.2 , but the 5ghz won t work (issue with QCA9880 firmware). I m therefore looking for an alternate optimized ... In the meantime i did fall back to my 17.01 r3293 compiled build

Thanks to the community !

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Hi r00t, is no-ip.com (ddns-scripts_no-ip_com) package included?

Thanks,

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Hi root, thanks for this build.
Im using it and so far so good.
Is it possible to run a schedule to reboot the router?
How can I do this?
Any help will be appreciated.

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@r00t, I've just seen this custom image of yours and it looks great. I think I may give it a try.

On a related note, there is an issue (FS#488 - dynamic VLAN doesn't work on ath10k) with hostapd and ath10k that makes it impossible to run dynamic VLANs on the 5GHz radio.

Some fixes are discussed in ath10k+hostapd: dynamic VLAN issue and dynamic vlan with ath10k not working - regression (patch for hostapd, with some potential repercusions and for ath10k.) Do you think this is something you could give a try and fix in this C7 image?

Thanks,

ADDED 2017-06-25:
I tried your firmware image and it works really well, except for the ath10k issue I mentioned :slight_smile:. Great work!

I did some testing of my own as well. While I couldn't try the ath10k patch because the vanilla SDK available has a slightly newer kernel version than the one you are using, I did try the hostapd patch and it works in the sense that I can now connect to my network (unfortunately, as it is mentioned in the link I posted, this patch breaks other things, so it's not really a long term solution.)

If anyone needs to get dynamic VLANs to work for now, I have created a patched wpad package. Note that this package is compiled for the mips_24kc architecture and not mips_74kc_dsp2, so you may need to add the former to /etc/opkg.conf to be able to install the package.

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@r00t do you think you can try to add the latest addition from @gwlim to the next build, the Fast Path port? Qualcomm Fast Path For LEDE

Thanks in advance.

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Sorry, I can't maintain a package repo. I PM'd you my build env.

Sorry, I can't bloat this build much more - it's a quite large image as it is. I PM'd you my build env so you can add whatever packages you need.

Yes. All available scripts are included.

Sure, just add a cronjob https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-add-jobs-to-cron-under-linux-or-unix-oses/

Sorry, all bugs need to be fixed upstream, so you best bring this to the LEDE team's attention. If I start messing with the code too much, it just makes it harder to maintain. Like if I include a patch for this bug and in a couple of weeks the LEDE team implements its own fix, it might break the nightlies and I have to keep track of these changes.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll definitely work on integrating gwlim's latest patches.

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Glad to read it! Your build with latest @gwlim latest patches, including Fast Path, can be a great build, so far your latest build is running with no problems and at great performance.

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I'd like to see HTTPAUTH enabled on the web UI by default, so there's no easy detail available to the casual user without authentication.

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@r00t would it be possible for you to publish the build env for eveyone?

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BIG update guys! Most imortant changes are:

  • Switched back from 74kc to 24kc in order to keep up with all the package requests. You can now use opkg to install any package you want! (@loloweb & @unkraut)
  • Added Qualcomm Fast Path support and hardware NAT capabilities (I think the commands haven't been figured out yet for the C7 - @codster314 maybe you want to look into this?)
  • Many patch updates
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Sorry but no, it's quite messy and I keep changing things and don't really want to bother versioning it and keeping it clean. You can easily replicate it by using the patches and config file provided on Github.

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@r00t, would it be possible for you to provide the checksum files for your nightly builds to verify the downloads?

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Next nightly will include checksums.

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@r00t, in System - Overview the following is shown : Architecture MIPS 74Kc V5.0 . I thought you changed to 24kc, or am i wrong?

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Check packages - they're 24kc.

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I see the cangelog with the changes in the GitHub but no the new files?

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Looks like I accidentally pushed it to the nightly directory. Fixing..

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Also looks like FastPath packages didn't actually get installed, LOL. Fixing that one as well.

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Just tried it quickly with my current conf... luci was really slow with timeout. ssh was working, so I revert to the snapshot