Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 17:23 Post subject: What is Vanilla firmware?
Been away from DD-WRT for a few years. I see in the new build threads the wireless firmware can be toggled between DD-WRT and Vanilla. Spent about 15 minutes googling and not any smarter than I was 15 minutes prior.
I have and it works on EA8500. =) Running Vanilla now and one behavior I notice, which may be intentional,
is during boot it loads default custom DD-WRT binaries then at the end of dmesg output switches to VANILLA.
Router/Version: Linksys EA8500 / Box Rev.A00 PCB REV:205(XC) hw_rev=1 hw_ver=XB / r45820 (02/23/21)
File/Kernel: CLI Flash dd-wrt-webupgrade.bin / Linux 4.9.257 #1155 SMP Mon Feb 22 21:13:04 +07 2021 armv7l
Previous/Reset: r45767 (02/17/21) / No
Mode/Status: AP Gateway / Mixed, 20 MHz, Channels 1 and 149, TX Power 30 dBm, Short Preamble
Issues/Errors: None / Uptime 21 hours 25 minutes
DD-WRT ver 10.4-ddwrt-9980-tW-13-6049M api 5 features mfp,peer-flow-ctrl,allows-mesh-bcast,peer-fixed-rate crc32 85419a3b
VANILLA ver 10.4-3.15-00015 api 5 features no-p2p,mfp,peer-flow-ctrl,allows-mesh-bcast,no-ps,peer-fixed-rate crc32 e2c838df
yes. the driver loads always the default firmware and i made a modification which allows a firmware switch on demand if selected. the dd-wrt firmware has 5 and 10 mhz support and auto ack timing. the vanilla firmware has a different newer codebase, which i dont have. to people cannot complain if something in my own firmware is not working in the way they like it. but try to make a performance comparisation
Well, that's not quite correct.
The vanilla firmware is the current Qualcomm firmware.
We all used it on the atheros routers until 4 months ago.
Then the DD-WRT firmware was added, a modified custom firmware based on an older code base.
The DD-WRT firmware also supports 5 and 10Mhz channel width and dynack.
The vanilla firmware is newer and actually causes less problems with non Qualcomm clients.
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Are/should the radio's be configured the same way for both Vanilla and DD-WRT on R7800?
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I had to switch from DD-WRT to VANILLA to get my N clients to work with any kind of throughput, and as I have N clients on both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks, I use VANILLA on both radios. The problem was so bad that I'd switched back to my old WRT1200AC so that the the people here on N could run Zoom, while I was trying to figure out what was wrong. _________________ Netgear R9000
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