I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    4•9 months ago

    Some routers have dual partition setup.

    Active and backup. When flashing firmware, it is flashed to the backup partition. If the router boots successfully, the newly flashed backup partition becomes active and vice versa. If things screw up, nothing happens.

    • haui
      2•9 months ago

      Thanks for the info. Thats not exactly what I meant. I‘m not afraid of the router itself breaking at installation but freezing for example and not being able to reboot. I usually dont tinker with mission critical stuff.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        I know you likely have moved on but it would be interesting to actually figure out the cause. What steps would someone need to take to reproduce the issue?