OpenWrt 19.07 Released With WPA3 Support, Ath79 Target

[jntesteves]

I bought the Linksys WRT3200ACS years ago with the purpose of using OpenWrt with it, but there was no official support back then, and with time I forgot about that because the original fw has never given me any headache, which is so rare with routers!

Anyone using OpenWrt with this router can confirm how stable it runs?

[caligula]

ar71xx is an OpenWrt platform based on Mach files and is completely unsuitable for the mainline kernel. ath79 is DTS based, and is currently being upstreamed.

I see, so ar71xx was supported by openwrt while ath79 will have mainline support. From end user's POV nothing changes.

[Mangix]

What does this mean exactly?

ar71xx is an OpenWrt platform based on Mach files and is completely unsuitable for the mainline kernel. ath79 is DTS based, and is currently being upstreamed.

[R41N3R]

Right now, WPA3 is useful for backend, like 802.11s mesh encryption, for example. It just works.

Is there any actual benefit in using stubby for DoH instead of https_dns_proxy? I've tried stubby before for DoT, and the latency was unbearable.

Well, I guess I didn't notice a real latency issue with stubby because I've used before the normal one of my cable provider, which was not the best either. Stubby provides DNSSEC in my config and it worked quite well so far, but I'm not able to compare this to other solutions.

[xnor]

Finally, an official release. I have switched to ath79 many months ago by compiling my own versions from master... which I will continue.
Has the great benefit of me being able to just compile the latest version with the software and configuration specific for my devices without having to reinstall/reconfigure anything after an update.

[hax0r]

openwrt is nice and their use of only foss drivers is great approach too, but for home router I prefer broadcom chipset and their propiretery .o blob files that come bundled with dd-wrt, great performance, great reliability, WiFi is great, it just works. Openwrt or pfsense doesn't come close, but they have their own uses.

[Seketh]

Just updated 4 routers to the new release. I use stubby for DNS over https, hope to get this out of the box in the future, it is always some effort to manually upgrade this.

Is there some real benefit in using WPA3 instead of WPA2? Didn't try it so far...

Right now, WPA3 is useful for backend, like 802.11s mesh encryption, for example. It just works.

Is there any actual benefit in using stubby for DoH instead of https_dns_proxy? I've tried stubby before for DoT, and the latency was unbearable.

[Mario Junior]

Kudos for the openwrt people.

[caligula]

A small note: ath79 is the future. ar71xx will remain until the next release when everything gets ported.

What does this mean exactly?

[R41N3R]

Just updated 4 routers to the new release. I use stubby for DNS over https, hope to get this out of the box in the future, it is always some effort to manually upgrade this.

Is there some real benefit in using WPA3 instead of WPA2? Didn't try it so far...