Re: [Bloat] Disappointment on "Best Newcomer Router" front

2024-02-26 Thread Erik Auerswald via Bloat
Hi, On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 06:34:47PM -0500, Rich Brown via Bloat wrote: > [...] > Then they plug the new router's WAN port into their ISP modem's port, > connect their laptop's Ethernet to the LAN port, point their browser to > "openwrt.lan" How about "openwrt.local" to conform to mDNS (RFC 676

Re: [Bloat] Disappointment on "Best Newcomer Router" front

2024-02-26 Thread Sebastian Moeller via Bloat
Mmmh, > On 26. Feb 2024, at 10:24, Erik Auerswald via Bloat > wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 06:34:47PM -0500, Rich Brown via Bloat wrote: >> [...] >> Then they plug the new router's WAN port into their ISP modem's port, >> connect their laptop's Ethernet to the LAN port, point the

Re: [Bloat] Disappointment on "Best Newcomer Router" front

2024-02-26 Thread Erik Auerswald via Bloat
Hi, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:47:16AM +0100, Sebastian Moeller wrote: > > On 26. Feb 2024, at 10:24, Erik Auerswald via Bloat > > wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 06:34:47PM -0500, Rich Brown via Bloat wrote: > >> [...] > >> Then they plug the new router's WAN port into their ISP modem's port

Re: [Bloat] mDNS (was Disappointment on "Best Newcomer Router" front)

2024-02-26 Thread Rich Brown via Bloat
Thanks for the observations re: "zero configuration OpenWrt install" > On Feb 26, 2024, at 4:47 AM, Sebastian Moeller wrote: > >> >> How about "openwrt.local" to conform to mDNS (RFC 6762) and IANA's >> [special-use domain names][1]? Or perhaps "openwrt.internal" in the >> future? > > Or per

Re: [Bloat] mDNS (was Disappointment on "Best Newcomer Router" front)

2024-02-26 Thread Kenneth Porter via Bloat
On 2/26/2024 6:28 AM, Rich Brown via Bloat wrote: - Avoid the WAN port's DHCP assigned subnet (what if the ISP uses 192.168.1.0/24?) I recently got ATT fiber and its modem won't let me assign from 10.0.0.0/8! So I put a Raspberry Pi 4 in front of it.