Posted by Grommish on Jun 11, 2020; 12:38am
URL: https://itus.accessinnov.com/FIRMWARE-Itus-Shield-v2-tp2014p2045.html

Hey all.

So, I've been approaching this whole project as an end project, rather than as a means for someone to get to an end.  Basically, I've been trying to build specific things rather than setting it up so the end-user can just do whatever they feel like..  Silly me :)

With the fact my system grenaded, and that I had to re-install everything anyway..

I've got a base router image to work with.  It is significantly smaller in size (32mb, i think?), the network is significantly FASTER (I had to redo the patches), and has absolutely no packages installed.. no banip, no adblock, no snort.  It has luCi and a few applications I deemed critical enough (like tcpdump, ethtool, bridge-tools, etc).

I will do something similar for the bridge mode.  I'm going to play with the SDK and imagebuilder to allow anyone to roll their own at any time without build tools..   Then, only the base would need to be updated from time to time.  Maybe see about hosting the entire compiled repo on github so opkg can work?

Thoughts or comments?