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Re:US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers by m463 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:27PM (#42456160)
I bought one and ran their firmware but it phoned home. kept on sending packets to some weird ip address at boot.

So I installed openwrt. They're actually pretty well supported by openwrt (except for the newer 10g switches)

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Re:US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers by k_roy on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:24PM (#42458415)
> kept on sending packets to some weird ip address at boot.

You mean an RFC1918 for etherboot? I have a "few" of these devices and this simply doesn't make any sense in any context.

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Re:US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers by m463 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:30PM (#42468028)
No it was not any kind of private ip (10.x/172.x/192.x/169.x etc). I swear it was eastern europe, probably mikrotik

I've since wiped the firmware/license keys so no idea.

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