Has anyone looked at Ubiquiti's firmware signing? Would it be possible to patch it to retain the drivers and kernel but replace the configuration layers? Being able to homebrew some config would make the equipment more valuable to us I think.
It is very, very easy to run vanilla Linux (or even OpenBSD) on their hardware. I do exactly this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645062
Octeons (not Octeon-TX) are amazing processors. Ubiquiti makes killer hardware. I hear their software is junk but wouldn't really know since I always erase it immediately after unboxing.
It's a big honking MIPS chip with firehose connections to the ethernet PHYs. Precisely the kind of device you want for a router.
What are the thruput measurements on OpenWRT when compared to ER-.. stock firmware, with hw accel or with DPI..?
I have an ER-4 to be able to use the entire wan connection, but on stock firmware I must disable DPI to enable hw acceleration (otherwise the thruput floors). I don't use DPI atm, so no big loss.
Can you utilize the hw accel in openWRT too?
Are we talking DPI at 1Gbps symmetric?