The OpenWrt distributions provide several thousand packages to extend the functionality of your device. The browseable package lists in this wiki will always show packages available in the latest update of the stable release.
Apr 28, 2010 · I'm trying to find a good, minimal list of packages to install on an OpenWRT build to ensure that the thing behaves the way an average user would expect it to, but the only thing I've found doesn't even suggest installing the upnp daemon. Since OpenWrt firmware stores the base system in a compressed read-only partition, any update to base system packages will be written in the read-write partition and therefore use more space than it would if it was just overwriting the older version in the compressed base system partition. Announce your custom builds, projects and packages that use/work with OpenWrt. Each community build, project, or package announcement should describe the best place for further discussion to occur. OpenWrt is designed by network professionals and others who care about the performance of their network. OpenWrt incorporates many algorithms from recent research that perform far better than vendor-supplied firmware. Dec 11, 2016 · luci-app-sqm and kmod-sched-cake are, in my opinion, the best packages for LEDE/OpenWRT. CAKE now has an option to automatically give equal bandwidth to all devices in your network, regardless of how many connections they have open. For example, If 1 client had 10 downloads going at once, and another had 1 download going, both would get 50%.
Mar 18, 2018 · The OpenWRT page does come with a warning about upgrading all packages, but also provides details on how to do it: Mass upgrade of all “upgradable” packages is not a good idea, as opkg only indicates that there is a newer version of the package, but does not do any further evaluation.
Jan 06, 2013 · OpenWrt is the bomb. Think all the power of a full Linux distro on your tiny home router or plug computer. Install an External Root Overlay. What the heck does that mean? OpenWrt uses an ingenious system were the root filesystem is a super compressed squashfs, merged with a read/write jffs2 filesystem called the overlay. Feb 19, 2012 · The opkg utility (an ipkg fork) is a lightweight package manager used to download and install OpenWrt packages from local package repositories or ones located on the Internet. Opkg attempts to resolve dependencies with packages in the repositories – if this fails, it will report an error, and abort the installation of that package.
OpenWRT is a powerful Linux distribution for embedded devices, such as my router, and this is the story of how I used it to double my bandwidth at no extra cost to myself. How? By doubling the number of Internet connections I have. My setup My internet. My internet is through Comcast (unfortunately). Comcast has an initiative called Xfinity WiFi.
Its best if you upgrade your OpenWRT build (It was deployed around 10/20/2019) to the recent build on 18.06 or 19.07 (whichever build is supported at your router), because it uses Linux kernel 4.14.149.