Paid Contract – OpenWrt Firmware Build for NanoPi R5S (RK3568)

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Hi all,
I’m looking for an experienced OpenWrt developer for a paid contract to build a production-grade OpenWrt firmware for the NanoPi R5S (RK3568).

Scope (high level):

  • Latest stable OpenWrt (no snapshots)

  • fw4 + nftables (iptables-nft only)

  • MWAN3 failover (no CONNMARK errors, LB/bonding ready)

  • MPTCP + bonding support

  • Docker (nft-compatible)

  • LTE (EG25): QMI default, MBIM/ECM available, ModemManager disabled by default

  • NVMe mounted at /mnt/nvme

  • RK3568 HW H.265 → ffmpeg → RTSP (mediamtx),

  • Full USB-serial + ST-LINK support

  • Reproducible build (ImageBuilder or full source) + matching SDK

This is not a hobby build — deliverables, validation, and reproducibility are required.
If you have real experience with Rockchip/RK3568 and MWAN3/nft, please reply or PM.

Thanks.

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Here you can get one for free
--- https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=24.10.5&target=rockchip%2Farmv8&id=friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s

I smell AI chatbot advice here, none of 2 conjoined terms are related in any way, CONNMARK fertilizes grass from under for a decade or so.

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No this is not AI advice, I am using the original FriendElec FriendlyWrt and MWAN3 is giving me the CONNMARK errors and it does not support Bonding - I dont want FriendlyWrt anymore I want a real OpenWrt , hence I am looking for professional help.

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That's what the link provided is all about ?

We have no idea what (and why) Friendly does and doesn't do.

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Ok, bonding does not do what you imagine it does, it is failover for physical ethernet cable. Rest seems fine.

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as far as I know to do bonding I need the kernel to support mctcp, I know what to do on top of and I also know that I need an external proxy server to support bonding. But OpenWrt must be able to join two interfaces (two WANs) and send the information with “tags” whatever that is called.

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How do I know the kernel you are pointing to me has support for MCTCP?

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I read here https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/c8d5abd62b70137c70bf12e83b6d0708b980abb3

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Hello brada4, thank you so much! let me know if you have bandwidth to help me at least for some support and questions. I have never built my own OpenWrt but the person who used to do it for me is unavailable and I need to solve the problem this week. Cheers.

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Try here... Most important is probably if you can revert to friendlywrt if you fail in your ventures.

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thanks but I can’t fail - I need to find someone who can help me.

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Why this specific hardware and what are you trying to do?

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I want two WAN ports to start as failover using mwan3 while I am building a Bonding server on the cloud. At that point, I want to enable bonding on the router configure it to work with the server and the magic should happen.

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Ahh and video codec is not open source.