In the previous version of openWRT (Barrier Breaker) the package Bandwidthd was available. I know that Bandwidthd can take a lot of resources on a router and maybe not ideal if the CPU is not fast enough and the memory is limited.
I acquired a WRT1900AC, to eventually replace some hardware that I have, and one thing that I wanted to use was to put Bandwidthd on it to replace a managed switch and a laptop that is currently monitoring my network with Bandwidthd. Currently that does not seem to be an option with Chaos Calmer as the package is not present anymore!
Can somebody tell me if there is a reason the package is not built anymore in Chaos Calmer (technical reason, incompatibility, people are not using it, etc.).
I do not mind looking around to built it myself if I have too (although I would have a little learning curve to install all I need to do that), but first I would like to know if it would be worth the time: if Bandwidthd cannot be built for Chaos Calmer, then I will not invest the time to do it!
To solve the problem of using too much resource on the openWRT router, Bandwidthd on a Linux system can use a postgresql database to store the data and a web server with PHP can actually use the data in the database and built the graphs that can be accessed with a web browser: the openWRT router just has to collect the data and save it to the server and does not need to analyze the data. I wonder it this was possible with the package on Barrier Breaker. The rouiter probably needs to have a postgresql client package, which seems to exists on Chaos Calmer, unless I am wrong.
If somebody has some knowledge about this, I would appreciate the input.