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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by stordoff on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:55AM (#15913448)
FWIW, it can be worth checking beyond whether or not your device is _supported_. I had DD-WRT running on an ASUS RT-AC68U for a while, and ended up switching back to a fork of the official firmware (Asuswrt-Merlin) for better performance once I upgraded to a >100Mbps WAN connection (IIRC it was something to do with hardware-accelerated NAT).
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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by philjohn on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @07:21AM (#15913751)
There's a patch to enable Qualcomm FastPath in LEDE, this offloads simpler TCP and UDP traffic from the Kernel stack and gets me 960Mbps LAN to WAN on a Netgear R7800.
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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by robert_foss on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:38AM (#15914083)
Why isn't the patch upstreamed?
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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by philjohn on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:30PM (#15954618)
Because stuff is only upstreamed when it's totally stable and known to work on a wide range of devices, it's still a tad experimental (albeit many people are using it successfully)

You can get dissent1's pull request here: https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/1269

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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:08AM (#15914653)
Thanks for the tip; I'll have to check this out! My router's OpenWRT wiki page has had an ominous warning about reduced NAT throughput for some time. Turns out that my router should be supported (Atheros AR9344 MIPS 74Kc based).
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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by philjohn on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:30PM (#15954623)
Here's the pull request, I think you'll have more luck with this than gwlim's builds: https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/1269
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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by sondr3 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:23AM (#15914346)
Where can I find this patch? I'm on one of the ASUS routers but want to try out LEDE, but don't want reduced throughput.
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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:06AM (#15914636)
I think these are it:

https://forum.lede-project.org/t/qualcomm-fast-path-for-lede...

https://github.com/gwlim/Fast-Path-LEDE-OpenWRT

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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by philjohn on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:29PM (#15954607)
GWLim's patch is the fastpath patch and a whole lot of micro-optimizations, so unless you're on a MIPS arch it's going to be hell to get working.

The cleaner patch, taken from QSDK upstream is here: https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/1269

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Re:TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query... by vlan0 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:01AM (#15913920)
I like it when you talk dirty like that...
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