gli-pub

IME yes, inaccurate. I have previously compiled OpenWRT for a wide range of devices from manufacturers with no official support and spotty community coverage so it's not like I'm not used to things like this. There's some talk about the issues with the E750 drivers/firmware on the openwrt forums or mailing list IIRC. This should give an idea of how much much attention they pay to security updates and the response one can expect when opening issues or PRs on their repos: https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub/pull/1

The firmware is a huge mess and it's especially unfortunate that there seems to be some undocumented custom drivers or something else I haven't been able to identify yet which is missing from upstream OpenWRT, making it unusable for certain of their devices. The gl.inet firwmare itself has a lot of missing updates and I am yet to successfully make custom builds of it (though in theory it should be possible through what's on their public Github repos, save for a handful of packages they provide as binary-only). They do not respond to issues or PRs on GitHub. I should have taken better notes on building a firmware but I think what eventually allowed me to replicate and make custom build was to just build as if a normal openwrt dist from https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt with a fork of https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub. Ended up ditching t

I will! Without the cloud stuff, the only thing I found so far was stuff like this, which I remove myself but is fully understandable - if you want to do zeroconf connectivity-checking on devices used in Mainland China you don't have much options otherwise. 8.8.8.8 certainly won't work. https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub/blob/326341dc5c14a256562e...

By extracting the firmware^1 one can see that GL.inet provides a cloud storage service. This is opt-in. It is not enabled by default. The cloud storage has a telemetry address listed in /etc/config/glbigdata (and a ping address to Google at 8.8.8.8). Perhaps one could use the service and change "telemetry.goodcloud.xyz" to the loopback or delete it. I have no inclination to test this as I do not use cloud storage. 1. https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/download.gl-inet.com/firm... With default configs IME one will see some constant traffic to 8.8.8.8. This is from OpenWRT mwan3's default configs. These defaults are left unchanged by GL.inet and probably other routers running OpenWRT. I have never seen anyone complain about this traffic. I doubt this is what is being referred to as "telemetry" in the above comment. Nevertheless, it