[Feature Request] Update underlying OpenWRT

Routers
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Between 21.02 and 23.05 (and now 24.10) OpenWRT made many improvements to its UCI interface to dnsmasq w/r to the DNS options, notably CNAME is very useful for us, (among other improvements).

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Hello,

  1. What the router model is? I would like to know it is MTK or Qualcomm, then will know if it supported the Vanilla OpenWRT.
  2. Feel free to let me know what problems you have about the router features?
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We are interested in the GL-X3000 and possibly the GL-XE3000
mediatek/mt7981

As mentioned above the CNAME feature is important to us and support for it was added to LUCI after 21.02

With the GL GUI I could not get wireguard configured for our environment and we already know how to do it with LUCI.

MWAN support is important for us as well.
We did our first, brief, field-test on the X3000 on Thursday and it lost connection after a couple minutes. Prognosis is this is due to a bad MWAN config but we have not root-caused yet.

I see OpenWRT has binaries published.

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MWAN must have latency settings or it will never work correctly because WiFi clings on for forever so you have to set a latency threshold for it to switch to LTE properly.
LTE is a little better because the tower drops the connection but the client will just attempt to reconnect so it will bounce so you must set it to presumed-failed and not become usable until there is multiple successful pings below the latency threshold.

Something like
<60 ms for WiFi
<120 ms for LTE

I tried to get vanilla OpenWRT 24.10.2 to work but had no luck getting the modem to connect following the OpenWRT instructions. (set usbmode et. al.)
Is there any way to get the RM520N to work with ModemManager?

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Hi,

  1. CNAME can be added in router SSH terminal, please edit this file /etc/dnsmasq.conf
  2. Add the CNAME rules in the at the end:
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  3. Restart the process to take effect:
    /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
  1. May I know what are the features of the WireGuard VPN (Server and Client) in the GL GUI which did not meet your requirements? What environment do you mean?
  1. Vanilla firmware may I could not support to, you can learn about this in the OpenWRT forum.