Custom firmware build for R7800 v. 1.0.2.54SF

[Voxel]

Its no longer a WEB GUI

I do not quite understand anyway your question. My login view is the same with Google Chrome. But the same view as say year ago. But it looks differently if e.g. to use IE11. What is the problem? I do not see any changes.

Voxel.

 

[gobble]

Guys, thanks for donation. But I stress that I had in mind just pushing "Like" button in my very first post. It is available if you login to the forum.

Voxel.

Honestly would have sent it regardless had I even noticed the button the website. Tend to go into autopilot straight to the firmware!

In the Asus forum I think there was a thread dedicated to donations so more obvious.

Anyway, have a beer or 2 on me and thanks for help over the year!

 

[lamecake]

Been a long time lurker & just wanted to say thank you for these custom firmwares. I've swapped out my ASUS config (AC87U & AC68U) for dual R7800 today, gonna try and set everything up using Voxel's firmwares. Hopefully with the desired results

 

[lamecake]

Quick question (couldn't find the answer with a search); does the wireless region matter for transmission power output?

 

[kamoj]

Quick question (couldn't find the answer with a search); does the wireless region matter for transmission power output?

Sure, even within EU there are still legal differences.
It's not only power output that is regulated, but also normal and radar frequency usage.
So if you buy a router from e.g. Canada or Australia, make sure you can change the region to where you are.

 

[kamoj]

He did a lot of add-ons (BTW I'd suggest the other guys to push him to publish his add-ons, I cannot do this pushing myself alone)

Ok Voxel, I'll send you one add-on example for review:
More (and some corrected) information in the "debug" page.
Examples:
All cores CPU load
Extended and corrected memory usage info
CPU Governors and Frequencies (Current speed)
Temperatures for CPU and WiFi chipsets (Current + Max)
WiFi info including output power and RSSI
OpenVPN client status and info
DNSCrypt server usage and status
Congestion Control
NTP syncronized (time sync info)
DNS status(incl ping time)
Internet connection status (incl ping time)
System Version Information

 

[W1lliam]

Sure, even within EU there are still legal differences.
It's not only power output that is regulated, but also normal and radar frequency usage.
So if you buy a router from e.g. Canada or Australia, make sure you can change the region to where you are.

There are few regions that you can't change by yourself from Web GUI if bought from some specific country, such as United States, Canada, Russia and Japan.

William

 

[pege63]

I do not quite understand anyway your question. My login view is the same with Google Chrome. But the same view as say year ago. But it looks differently if e.g. to use IE11. What is the problem? I do not see any changes.

Voxel.

Before it was a WEB based ROUTER login now i get this square for login.
And It says "Your connection to the web site is not private."?

 

[Deleted member 22229]

@Voxel. A big Thanks for your effort it is much appreciated. My 7800 is rocking with your work and it's awesome you fixed the naming of connected devices. Outstanding !! I hate to say it but my 7800 is working better then my trusty Asus AC3100. Please keep this going.

 

[Killhippie]

Before it was a WEB based ROUTER login now i get this square for login.
And It says "Your connection to the web site is not private."?

Chrome changed to highlight all HTTP connections as insecure. Since you are logging into the routers GUI directly not a web page, I'm not sure how much that matters. Although seeing HTTPS would be good across all Netgear routers. I have mentioned this several times but nothing ever changes at Netgears end firmware wise.

 

[Voxel]

Chrome changed to highlight all HTTP connections as insecure. Since you are logging into the routers GUI directly not a web page, I'm not sure how much that matters. Although seeing HTTPS would be good across all Netgear routers. I have mentioned this several times but nothing ever changes at Netgears end firmware wise.

R7800 accepts HTTPS to its GUI.

Before it was a WEB based ROUTER login now i get this square for login.
And It says "Your connection to the web site is not private."?

Try to enter:

https://routerlogin.net

Voxel.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Just wondering what does SF stand for ?

 

[Killhippie]

R7800 accepts HTTPS to its GUI.


Try to enter:

https://routerlogin.net

Voxel.

No not on stock firmware, just tried on my XR500 and got a 'this connection is not' secure page appear on Firefox 61.0.1. I mentioned this to @NETGEAR Guy ages ago from what I remember, the login is http because when you do the initial setup you get a warning that the password is not over a secure connection. Same with R7800, Voxel. In fact I think all netgear routers use http not https on stock. You can see here its not https as well, ironically over a https webpage

https://kb.netgear.com/980/How-do-I-log-in-to-my-NETGEAR-home-router

 

[Voxel]

Just wondering what does SF stand for ?

Well, SF is rather for my own classification. For example I use HF for R9000. It depends on options I can use for compilation of firmware.

From the GCC (compiler) manual:

-mfloat-abi=name

Specifies which floating-point ABI to use. Permissible values are: ‘soft’, ‘softfp’ and ‘hard’.

Specifying ‘soft’ causes GCC to generate output containing library calls for floating-point operations. ‘softfp’ allows the generation of code using hardware floating-point instructions, but still uses the soft-float calling conventions. ‘hard’ allows generation of floating-point instructions and uses FPU-specific calling conventions.

The default depends on the specific target configuration. Note that the hard-float and soft-float ABIs are not link-compatible; you must compile your entire program with the same ABI, and link with a compatible set of libraries.​

I have to use –mfloat-abi=softfp option for R7800 (so it is why SF). IPQ806x processor has FPU so it would be optimal to set float as a “hard” but unfortunately the GPL sources from NG contain a set of pre-built programs and some of them are compiled with a “soft” options. So I just cannot use “hard”(FYI softfp uses FPU anyway). But as I said hard would be most optimal for IPQ806x (e.g. hard is used for R9000). soft and hard are not compatible. softfp is compatible with both. Currently I cannot create HF version for R7800. Maybe NG at the end of all will pay their attention to what I reported to them long time ago (optimal compilation options for R9000/R7800/R7500)… After this you will see HF version for R7800.

Voxel.

 

[pege63]

R7800 accepts HTTPS to its GUI.


Try to enter:

https://routerlogin.net

Voxel.

No cant connect its accept only the ip address.
I manage to fix it now thanks, its the heat we have +34 C its the hottest summer in 260 years here and the temp i my home is +32 C and all fan and AC is sold out months back.

 

[Voxel]

No not on stock firmware, just tried on my XR500 and got a 'this connection is not' secure page appear on Firefox 61.0.1. I mentioned this to @NETGEAR Guy ages ago from what I remember, the login is http because when you do the initial setup you get a warning that the password is not over a secure connection. Same with R7800, Voxel. In fact I think all netgear routers use http not https on stock. You can see here its not https as well, ironically over a https webpage

It is interesting. I did not flash a stock fw long time. But HTTPS is not a my invention. It was available in the stock and I just re-used it. And as I checked now it has to work in e.g. 1.0.2.52, part of /www/cgi-bin/uhttpd.sh:

. . .
uhttpd_start()
{
        $UHTTPD_BIN -h /www -r ${REALM}  -x /cgi-bin -t 80 -p 0.0.0.0:80 -C /etc/uhttpd.crt -K /etc/uhttpd.key -s 0.0.0.0:443
}
. . .

above is from latest stock 1.0.2.52. 443 is HTTPS port. So maybe it is just a bug if it does not work. I am able to access https://routerlogin.net from my version.


Voxel

 

[Voxel]

No cant connect its accept only the ip address.

It should work if you do not use your own custom DNS on your computer. By default R7800 automatically resolves routerlogin.net as IP of your router.

its the heat we have +34 C its the hottest summer in 260 years here and the temp i my home is +32 C and all fan and AC is sold out months back.

Well I understand you... The same hot weather in my place. I wanna have winter with a lot of snow and skiing...

Voxel.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Qusetion. Does the 7800 have a IPv6 firewall ? I ask this because i see nothing in the UI on stock or Vortex firmware mentioning a IPv6 firewall. Can anyone confirm this or is using native IPv6 a huge security risk with Netgear ? If so back to my Asus and the 7800 goes back for a full refund.

 

[SwampKracker]

Qusetion. Does the 7800 have a IPv6 firewall ? I ask this because i see nothing in the UI on stock or Vortex firmware mentioning a IPv6 firewall. Can anyone confirm this or is using native IPv6 a huge security risk with Netgear ? If so back to my Asus and the 7800 goes back for a full refund.

There is not a single occurrence of the word "firewall" that I can find in the web-ui. There is "Secure NAT" and "Port Forwarding", but not much else. The marketing material on Netgear's website claims the R7800 to have a stateful packet inspection firewall plus NAT. I assume that it is standard IPTables with all of the best practices implemented.
Maybe Voxel could share some insight as to the inner workings of the R7800 and whether or not it is a proper IPv6 firewall.

 

[Voxel]

Qusetion. Does the 7800 have a IPv6 firewall ?

Maybe Voxel could share some insight as to the inner workings of the R7800 and whether or not it is a proper IPv6 firewall.

NG uses own firewall net-wall. No source codes of this tool, it is called from various binaries and scripts. But according to the help of this utility it supports IPv6:

Firewall configuration util v2.0 (Delta Networks Inc.)
Usage: net-wall [OPTIONS] [ start | restart | stop | rule ]
Options:
        -w  --wan-interface     WAN interface name
        -l  --lan-interface     LAN interface name
        -6  --ipv6     no_argument

P.S.

stock or Vortex firmware

Vortex->Voxel.

Voxel.