Feature #355
Netgear WNDR4000 (N750), WNDR4500 (N900)
| Status: | Rejected | Start date: | 04/07/2012 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | Spent time: | 0.50 hour | |
| Target version: | 1st Public Cerowrt release |
Description
Sorry if this in an inappropriate place for this request, but my local 'box stores' do not carry WNDR3800 and only have newer (incompatible) rev3 of WNDR3700. They do carry the newer WNDR4000 (N750) and WNDR4500 (N900) Netgear routers. Is there any hope that these newer devices might be able to run Cerowrt at some point in the not-too-distant future or should I try to purchase a used WNDR3800 on eBay etc.?
cheers
History
Updated by Dave Täht about 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
- Target version set to 13
Those routers are not 100% open source firmware at present and thus are not usable for the cerowrt effort.
The 3800s are readily available online. 3700v2s are, also, but sometimes it's hard to get a vendor to recognise that the 3700v1, v2, v3 are entirely different hardware, so the 3800 is the best bet at present.
There are about 5 other routers from other vendors that use the same chipset that we use that we may try to support in the future, or perhaps we'll take on another platform entirely that meets the requirements and has intersecting problems. Of the two, I lean towards the latter. I'd like to be fiddling with 10gigE on the octeons, frankly.
We do try to push the successful technologies in cerowrt up to openwrt, the relevant packages, and to the mainline linux kernel, as fast as they prove out, so that they'll be available universally on all platforms. Notably the linux 3.3 mainline has two core new technologies in it (BQL and sfqred) that are very promising on desktops and servers. Bufferbloat is not just a router problem!
But that takes a while. I hope you join us on the 3800 for the nonce
Updated by Luke H about 1 year ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I actually found a shop selling WNDR3800s and purchased one today. Just finished flashing it, that part of the process was painless. Now just trying to dig around the GUI and various config files to wrap my head around everthing. I've had experience with DDWRT, Tomato, pfSense2, and some Vyatta but this project is very exciting with all the bleeding edge tech inside. Can't wait to dig in deeper. I used the 3.3.1-4 Apr-06 build btw, not sure if that was wise or not!
Updated by Luke H about 1 year ago
One last question:
what is the corrent procedure for powering down the router? I logged in via SSH and ran 'poweroff' which seemed to work. Is it safe to just flip the power switch?
Updated by Dave Täht about 1 year ago
yes. There is never (or I should say, only extremely rarely) any state on the box that needs to be saved.
Updated by Dave Täht about 1 year ago
- Target version changed from 13 to 1st Public Cerowrt release