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

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#692

Also, directed @ any mods:

Why were two of my previous posts in this thread flagged as spam? (1, 2)

It happened just as I hit the submit button to post the message above.

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The links I posted were not promotional or irrelevant to the topic. The first one is a link to a fork I made that I mentioned only because it was relevant at the time as a direct reply to another user's request, not as an attempt at advertising. The second one is a link to the official lede repo mirror as part of an explanation for a question that gets asked constantly here.

This new forum software is starting to get really obnoxious. Over-engineered would be too much of a compliment for it. At this point, I'd prefer the archaic forum that openwrt still has running.

EDIT: I was informed that apparently github was being considered a spam domain and has since been added to a whitelist.

#693

Hi @cliobrando, whatever I do, the big lag comes back after a while and persists until a reboot and after that also comes quickly back again, so I'm on stock firmware now;
I would like though to give another shot and flashing your firmware, but please tell me what do I have to do to have DHCP leases on the clients, I remember seeing an IP obtained on the WAN side (with DHCP) but none of the clients received any internet through their connection (they all had the yellow exclamation mark)
thanks

#697
#698

It was closed??? Why??

#699

Unintentional, per the nice mod who responded to me flagging it asking why :slight_smile:

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#700

so its back up eh...yeah id like to try the odhcpd and unbound with the breed bootloader, but i keep up to date with @r00t nightly, still waiting for a kernel update in order to use the kmod-mtd-rw package. my raspberry pi's are already on 4.14.18+, im amazed at the slow progression to mips.

p.s. i just run a script after a flash to remove everything already preinstalled in the packages:

opkg remove luci-app-simple-adblock
opkg remove simple-adblock
opkg remove luci-app-statistics
opkg remove luci-theme-material
opkg remove zone*
opkg remove luci-app-sqm
opkg remove vim
opkg remove tcpdump-mini
opkg update
opkg install tcpdump
opkg install zoneinfo-pacific
opkg install macchanger
opkg install iftop
#mkdir /opt
#rm -rf /mnt/sda1/*.*
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ; tar -C /overlay -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt/sda1 -xf - $

whats the best way to add odhcpd and unbound to my script in order to remove dnsmasq? since im too lazy to compile my own configuration of the snapshots.

#701

even better, replace dnsmasq with odhcp + unbound, add getdns/stubby and forward unbound to stubby. So you get DNS over TLS with stubby and the caching of unbound = 0 lag.

#702

nice!! can you think of a way to add that to my shell script? so if anyone else wants to do it, its just a simple ... sh change.sh. i keep a separate partition where i store scripts so after a flash i just mount that partition(or its mounted automatically) and run it.

#703

First, Why do you want 4.14 kernel? Just stick with the LEDE trunk, I think that the 4.9.X kernel is enough for 99% of cases, even 4.4 is enough if you don't care about BBR.
Second: Why a script? take the r00t patches and config, set up a build environment, and add or remove packages and kernel modules to your liking, and compile your own firmware.

Edit: to replace u-boot with breed, I just added the rw kmod to my build and flashed without problems.

#704

cliobrando - would you mind uploading a copy of you version for factory-us-bin?

Thank you,

#705

No problem, I'll compile a new one.

#706

sysupgrade: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rx_Wp8cnkMIepCUrIcLjaQIzd-ukjYje
factory-us: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x2sf0HJiigJnVk8VG-fNPxY6P0S21i1H

There's a lot of error messages from stubby on the system log (it's one message repeated), but seems that it's just a bug, if you restart the daemon or even launch stubby from the shell in debug mode (stopping stubby first): "stubby -C /etc/stubby/stubby.yml -l -v 7" all is fine. The errors appear just when LEDE is starting if you restart stubby no error message appears in the log.

Well, after all stubby/getdns were just added recently to the LEDE Trunk, so a lot of rough edges are expected (no luci config, almost no documentation, bugs, etc.).

Hope you can use my build, I tried to include most of my configs in it, but if something isn't working just go to the options and check if everything is ok.

#707

Thank You!

#708

hey @r00t do you think you could include the kmod-mtd-rw into your builds?

#709

I acquired this router specifically for this special build after using Tomato for better than ten years. I installed direct to this from the stock firmware with no issues. I am not yet using the router as my connection or anything really but it's on and idling on my network. I wish I knew if lag might become an issue.

I also got a Netgear WNDR4300 given to me and put the latest LEDE, and I was surprised to find the interface looks a little different. Is the difference in this build, o well those changes appear in the next release?

Thanks so much for LEDEing the way.

#710

@nathan7
The default LEDE build (not customized) comes with a standard package selection, the "customized" LEDE build comes with the packages selected by the "owner" of the build, in this case r00t. That's why the menu looks different.

#711

I understood that. The biggest difference I see is the colors seem more bland in the regular LEDE, and the menus are accessed differently, it's not simply additional items. Are there packages that change the color scheme?

#712

There's a themes package, but I dont know if the color scheme changes between build.

#713

The buttons have color on this build and not the release.

#714

Image from the build that I'm currently using:
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