Libre WiFi is a shitshow, but half the things you cited aren't about WiFi. The "Docker/WiFi" problem that two of your quotes are about isn't about WiFi, it's about "Docker insists on messing with the firewall, and that's a problem because I'm trying to use the box as a router." Docker messing with the firewall would be a problem on any router, wired or wireless; and it's just coincidental that OP's setup happens to be wireless.
None of the configuration was about the wifi interface not working out of the box, but about setting up an access point and a network bridge. If OP had just wanted to use the interface as a normal wifi client I suspect installing NetworkManager was all he had to do(installed and started by default on most user-friendly distros) and the experience would have been equivalent to Windows, Android or iOS. At least that has been my experience the last 5-10 years.
Re:Running an Open Source Home Area Network
by thedougd on Monday July 11, 2022 @09:41AM
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And this is why I went separate AP from router. You can easily get a commercial grade Wifi AP that doesn't do anything else other than WiFi. They're stable and include the latest standards.
Meanwhile, I run my own Linux router on a Raspberry Pi. It covers all the wacky edge case needs I have such as Wireguard, VRFs, VLAN, etc.
Re:Running an Open Source Home Area Network
by hammyhavoc on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:04AM
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Pi still only have a single ethernet port, right? What kind of performance do you see?
Re:Running an Open Source Home Area Network
by thedougd on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:15PM
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Yes. I can achieve line rate throughput (940mbps measured tcp throughput) with a USB 3.0 gigabit dongle on one side, and the built-in ethernet on the other.
Out of bos without tuning, it's more like 750mbps maximum throughput. Most of the optimizations are pinning IRQs and RX buffers to particular CPU cores, otherwise it'll max out one core and limit the throughput.
I'm routing and forwarding, as well as stateful firewalling with nftables.
>Since the Panda PAU09 N600 works out of the box, the only thing needed to enable the WiFi access point is a working hostapd configuration: [75+ lines of config for something that "works out of the box"]
>One pitfall here is that Docker likes to mess around with iptables, leading to WiFi clients being unable to communicate with the internal network. In order to fix this, another drop-in configuration is needed:
>Update: Because I simply couldn’t get it working with this rule, that was suggested in the Docker docs in first place, I eventually gave up and used a jackhammer to fix it: [...]
I see wifi is still a shitshow in the libre world. Running entirely free software is a laudable goal but the above sums up why it's never going to be mainstream. All that fuckery for previous generation .11ac?
No thanks, I have a zillion other more important things to do with my time.