OK, I misunderstood, I thought it does not work only when hardware offloading is active.
That is correct. When HW NAT is not active/enabled, SQM works fine. What is the confusion about exactly?
just created an account to say thanks for your wonderful firmware. turned my POS 860L B1 into a great device. many thanks!
Just a question: I am filtering 22 hostnames (they are Sony servers, I have to filter them in order to avoid accidental upgrades of my Playstation or unwanted connections to PSN) editing the file dnsmasq.conf.
Could I filter the 22 domains with the Adblock included on Bartvz's builds?(I don't like to filter the ads at router level so I would use Adblock only for that 22 lines).
What is the most clean and cpu-saver solution between to filter throw dnsmasq.conf or Adblock?
The big plus of Adblock is that I would activate/deactivate the filtering through Luci interface...
Many thanks for your answer!
well adblock seems to be using dnsmasq, so it will be the same and i guess this is the best way to do it
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The confusion is about flow offload not bypassing the qdisc but hw flow offloading bypassing the qdisc. So SQM QoS works with flow offloading but not with hw flow offloading. What I would love to see is some knobs to control hw flow offload. Maybe they are there already but I have not looked through the code thoroughly. Also, maybe we could use the "oldskool" QoS to do shaping/prioritization in combination with hw offload. Hmm, some stuff to tinker around with.
Thank you for your kind words. I am just sharing what I use 
You could use adblock/dnsmasq but I would use an ipset since it is in my knowledge the most efficient way to block (a larger) list of IP's: https://linux-audit.com/blocking-ip-addresses-in-linux-with-iptables/
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@All: Fresh new build in the OP, enjoy!
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@Bartvz
Thanks for your builds, do you have problems with 2.4GHz clients?
After a few days of uptime wifi becomes very slow and I have to restart the router.
Im on the latest build, currently "Uptime 12d 22h 10m 20s". I have not noticed any problems. About 5-6 tablets and 5-6 phones and a few computers connected constantly. Also handles the 5 or so wired connections just fine.
Cheers,
J
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I, personally, don't have those problems but clients come and go on the 2.4 GHz network. Also, I reboot my router quite a lot so I might not run into them. Try the latest build (latest mt76 driver) to see if that fixes your problems. Quite a lot of bugs are being squashed lately!
@All, OP updated with a new build!
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Using the latest build, I am having some Wi-Fi connection drops with both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz.
r6795 was a lot more stable than the latest for me.
I too am having more issues with the newest build...LuCI running slower, WiFi devices seem to be slow at loading websites, etc.
I'm only using this router as an AP at this point.
Are you both using either flow offload or flow offload + hw flow offload?
I'm using hw flow offload, but as it is an AP, no Wan connection anyway
I am using standard settings, so it should be flow offload + hw offload. How could I check it?
I have a 100mbit connection with a laptop + 2 phones connected through wifi and another laptop connected through lan.
No Sqm.
@rajsris @Axl_Mas just ran a few quick and dirty iperf3 tests and the sender and receiver post different values of the amount of data transferred which should not be the case (o flow offload, hw flow offload or both on/off, doesn't matter). There is something funky going on but at the moment I do not have the time to dig into it.
@All, best is to stick with the previous build, r6795!
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@Bartvz Just fyi, I am not able to downgrade from 6953 to 6795 either...both in LuCI or using sysupgrade -v in SSH. Router remains slow to run LuCI after a reboot
There seems to be a bug on mt7621 which renders flashing impossible. Only way to flash a different firmware is via recovery.
I was able to get into recovery mode and re-flash r6796, which worked. I also was able to backup settings prior to this, and then restore after, so good as new!
For the people that are unable to flash, the flashing issues seem to be caused by hostapd not stopping in time. I haven't tried it myself yet, but you can try killing all hostapd processes and flashing via an Ethernet connection.
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