openwrt-sfe-flowoffload-ath79

Openwrt firmware with SFE and FlowOffload

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What it is

Openwrt firmware with SFE and FlowOffload

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Where it is used

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Observed mentions: 2019-02-03 02:22:56 UTC to 2019-02-03 16:44:06 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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mtarnovan·Feb 3, 2019

I just found out that the Archer C7 now has support for both Qualcomm SFE and hardware decryption. No official builds yet (all official builds for the C7 are based on kernel 4.9 while SFE requires 4.14), but I found this: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload For me the speedup with SFE is almost x2, haven't tried hardware encryption yet. With this, I would say the C7 is an excellent router for OpenWRT.

In Openwrt 18.06.2 released

mtarnovan·Feb 3, 2019

Thanks, I tried this build: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload and speeds are much improved (more than 2x, I'm getting 893.1Mbps downloads now).

In Openwrt 18.06.2 released

theandrewbailey·Feb 3, 2019

Try looking at the fast path module.[0] Your router might have some kind of Qualcomm NAT accelerator chip[1] that isn't natively supported/distributed by OpenWRT.[2] You'll have to compile your own build of OpenWRT, so it might be a bit difficult to get going. I haven't needed to do it, because my WAN connection is only 50 Mbps. [0] https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload [1] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/qualcomm-fast-path-for-lede/4582 [2] like mine https://openwrt.org/toh/wd/n750

In Openwrt 18.06.2 released