#20441: TL-WR1043ND V2.1 WAN limited connection
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Reporter: yo2mno@… | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Barrier Breaker 14.07
Component: other | Version: Barrier Breaker 14.07
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by anonymous):
as an owner of a TL-WR1043ND V2.1, i can tell you that stock firmware uses
the hardware NAT module.
Using that in OpenWRT requires a lot of ugly hacks of the linux kernel and
a few bits of proprietary code in a way that will probably break
compatibility with a lot of other devices and is not legally available for
an open source project... as such, OpenWRT must avoid using the hardware
NAT feature and do all NAT functions using only the CPU.
most common options in this area are either:
-buy an OpenWRT-compatible router that has a faster cpu
-stay with stock firmware.
see
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/switch#features
and ticket #11779 for the whole saga of the Hardware NAT
also, some improvements for "fastpath" NAT seem to be in the pipeline, but
the legal department at Marvell is still digesting whether to approve
those for release as open source or not.
the thread for this feature
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-
devel/2014-December/030214.html
seems to have died off around march 2015... without any update on this.
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