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Re: Update and decision time.

Posted by Gnomad on Jun 12, 2020; 4:06am
URL: https://itus.accessinnov.com/FIRMWARE-Itus-Shield-v2-tp2014p2047.html

Hi Grommish,
I'm not sure that you had completely the wrong idea.. The Shield was originally advertised on Kickstarter as more of a "set & forget" style of appliance - i.e. one that handled automatic rule updates, etc - without needing to regularly login or tweak.  I'd guess that like myself, many of who's left only started down the tinkering route out of necessity once Itus shut down.

So personally, given that I've got a replacement device on pre-order to (hopefully) serve the original purpose, I'm unlikely to be doing too much more development.  But if there was a router image with some form of reasonably stable self-updating security rules - DNS, Snort, or other firewall - then I'd be happy to install & use it, help with feedback & testing.  Ad-block would be a bonus, but not necessary.

That said, out of who's left, you've probably got a higher proportion with more tinker passion left than me ;)  so hopefully they'll reply too.
You've been doing brilliant work with the Shield to get it to this point - far beyond what I'd know how to do with my limited linux navigation skills - so I hope you can keep it going!


On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 08:38, Grommish [via Itus Networks Owners Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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?
Running Itus Shield v2 Firmware



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