Hello, I’ve been using the Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 as my main router for a few years and was looking to update it to openwrt 23.05 and then found there were no builds after 2023 May 17 for the previous stable release of openwrt.
Is the build system broken? or is the product just out of support? were the builds moved?
are there other projects I can install on the Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 that will have it work as a router?
is there a best practices way to upgrade as I just reflash and restore settings from backup which is a little convoluted …
Hi perfessor101
We’re sorry to tell you that we have no plans to update the newest 23.3 OpenWRT version at this time, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
When it’s updated in the future, we’ll alert you on the weekly wiki and update it in OneDrive!
This is disappointing given that I bought this product to have longer lasting security via the OpenWRT project updates, compared to commercial routers.
Some people may find the left ethernet port (left one) is unable to use, you need to enable the port from either web ui or through the luci config command, here is an example of bring up interfaces:
config interface 'loopback'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
option netmask '255.0.0.0'
option device 'lo'
config globals 'globals'
option ula_prefix 'fd95:27c5:3e18::/48'
option packet_steering '1'
config interface 'lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option ip6assign '60'
option device 'br-lan'
config interface 'wan'
option proto 'dhcp'
option device 'eth1'
config interface 'vpn0'
option proto 'none'
option device 'tun0'
config interface 'docker'
option device 'docker0'
option proto 'none'
option auto '0'
config device
option type 'bridge'
option name 'docker0'
config device
option name 'br-lan'
option type 'bridge'
list ports 'eth0'
As for now, tweaking these configurations is needed.
WoW, Thank you for running it down, I see this question often.
WHat does “Seeed” think about Openwrt if you don’t mind and is there another option? I use Pfsense everywhere else(Home, Office, VPN)
With all the edge AI devices on the rise , You guys give any thoughts to routers and gateways?
Well, we are still supporting OpenWRT. For Raspberry Pi (CM4), currently the firmware can be downloaded directly from OpenWRT. Need some modifications but it’s doable.
For Rockchip based, like LinkStart H68 series, our customer may contact us for new OpenWRT images.
PJ 
