GL.iNET Flint 2 (GL-MT6000) discussions

At that point, just for a few minutes, because I've rebooted it shortly before taking this screenshot. Current uptime is 20h45min and the reported upload on eth1 is up to 247.2 GiB (and still going up).

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However, it looks like the WAN interface stats appear to be more or less correct - it's one of the Ethernet devices that's doing overtime on uploads. Stats for lan1/5 are far lower than expected, as the desktop on lan1 just pulled a few gigabytes of data from the NAS on lan5, and none of this is accounted for.

Which openwrt version you are using? Any strange pkg or script installed?

Im using latest snapshot without similar behavior

Also on a recent-ish snapshot, version: OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r25153-869df9ecdf / LuCI Master git-24.040.70477-23ebdb3

No strange packages, maybe Tailscale, but it's idling, complete list: https://gist.github.com/DragoonAethis/db205d392216f3c15fdf84095e49e902

I flashed OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r25210-b0b8fd436f today with Linux Kernel 6.1.77, so far no issues.

This is now my main AP, and also serves mesh nodes via 802.11s over B.A.T.M.A.N, and with Cake SQM.

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I took the risk and just flashed it too. It booted fine. Not enough uptime to say much else.

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Is this selectable via Firmware Selector, or, you have to build your own?

You can get it from firmware selector.

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Linux OpenWrt 6.1.77 #0 SMP Fri Feb 16 13:10:11 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
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With latest snapshot the space is auto expanded. You get full 8Gb

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Yes!

Mounted file systems
Filesystem	Mount Point	Available	Used	Unmount
/dev/root	/rom	0 B / 49.50 MiB	100.00% (49.50 MiB)	-
tmpfs	/tmp	486.57 MiB / 493.92 MiB	1.49% (7.35 MiB)	-
/dev/loop0	/overlay	7.00 GiB / 7.19 GiB	2.59% (190.90 MiB)	-
overlayfs:/overlay	/	7.00 GiB / 7.19 GiB	2.59% (190.90 MiB)	-
tmpfs	/dev	512.00 KiB / 512.00 KiB	0.00% (0 B)

This was a great purchase.

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In the market now for a new router to replace an old Linksys E4200v2 that I've been using since 2018 or so.

Is there an estimate on when this device will be supported by the stable release?

QUESTION -
When using 2.5GB Ethernet devices, should the device port MTU be increased to 9000?
Isn't this considered Jumbo Frame, or some such?
I guess this can be forced via ethtool?

It looks like someone created a bug report for the 2.4GHz issue, but they did exactly what I said shouldn't be done, which is to say "2.4 GHz does not deliver appropriate speeds" without actually providing any detailed information.

It'd help if someone could install the beta firmware, disable 5GHz, note down the WiFi settings and then perform speed tests from 2 or 3 devices. Then install an OpenWrt snapshot, apply the same WiFi settings (with WED enabled) and repeat the speed tests with the same devices. That way you're able to demonstrate just how severe the issue is.

The bug report also says that 2.4GHz is limited to 60Mbps, but I'm able to achieve anywhere from 60Mbps to 100Mbps with my Android phone. Although, I assume with the beta firmware I could consistently get 160Mbps or more? I just don't have the time to test it right now, otherwise I would of created the bug report myself.

Whenever 23.05.3 is released, which should be soon. Although the snapshots have been very stable too.

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how to select. with Linux Kernel 6.1.77?

I am getting

I just got this device early this week.
Did the initial sysupgrade load, didn't notice kernel version then.
Been doing auc attended sysupgrades since then.

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I don't know if it's a bug, but the firmware selector will often serve outdated custom builds instead of building new images every day. So you need to add or remove a non-critical package to get it to build a new image.

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GL-MT6000 support is in the 23.05 branch, so it will be in the next 23.05 release.

23.05-snapshot with GL-MT6000 images are available:

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That's one way to circumvent, or you could also simply build using the Image Builder directly. Super easy to set up and it just works.

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Yeah, that's an option too. I only mentioned the firmware selector since that's what @tcp quoted and I figured that by mentioning it here someone might know if it's supposed to serve outdated custom images, or if that's a bug.

I would of thought that older snapshots are removed from the firmware selector when a new version becomes available, since the whole point in selecting a snapshot is to get a bleeding edge version.

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This device is not able to change the CPU [scaling governor from ondemand to performance?

root@OpenWrt:~# ls -al /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Feb 18 17:24 .
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root             0 Dec 31  1969 ..