Announcing OpenWrt/MLPPP - multilink firmware for consumer routers - Caneris & Acanac

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:31:33PM -0500, Erik L wrote:
> We wanted to avoid a fork, but the prevailing factor for OpenWrt/MLPPP became ease of use. The product requires a non-default (for OpenWrt) kernel config and a MLPPP-related kernel patch, a non-default web interface (webif instead of luci) modified by us, plus all the userspace MLPPP code and scripts. While it's possible to compile the kernel patch into a replacement ppp kernel module and perhaps bring everything else down to a couple of .ipk, installing it like that over a stock OpenWrt would still not be trivial for non-technical end users. It would also require them running the correct version of OpenWrt - we based alpha 1 on 8.09.2 for various reasons. This is why we've chosen to provide pre-compiled binary images - the focus is on anyone being able to download the firmware, flash it
 , and config from the GUI. This doesn't preclude the technically-inclined from doing whatever they'd like to do. 
> 
> Another major reason was hardware; as I mentioned in the announcement, we're working on a complementary CPE (hardware). The end goal here is to sell pre-flashed and pre-configured units to our subscribers. Part of the hardware effort involves more kernel modification in the form of driver development for hardware currently not supported by OpenWrt. 
> 
> If anyone here is testing this out, feedback is most welcome.

Hmm, sounds neat.  Now since I know openwrt will work on the DIR-825
that I have at least using the current development code, then mlppp
might soon be an option on it too.  There probably aren't many other
routers with that level of CPU and RAM as the DIR-825 has.

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Len Sorensen
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