I had read good reviews about the #GL-iNet #routers so I purchased one of their products around 18 months ago. One of my main motivations was supporting, at some level, #OpenWrt and including tools like #AdGuardHome and #Wireguard.

But to be honest, it all has been a bit disappointing.

AdGuardHome never worked very well. Apart from being slow, the service would frequently freeze (e.g. whenever I updated the custom filter) and I had to manually restart it.

In addition, the system stack was quite messy and difficult to make sense of. For example, the #DNS service #Dnsmasq could be managed directly or via Openwrt, sometimes creating unintended problems.

Anyway, the router decided to implode after a firmware upgrade, which is quite underwhelming. I tried a few things like reflashing Uboot, factory reset, etc. before deciding to just toss it away and get another one, from a different brand.

Switched from #ISC DHCP to #dnsmasq on #opnsense.

The transition wasn't very smooth as the update process disabled #ISC without enabling #dnsmasq so essentially you had to assign static ips to restore your setup after the update, yikes.

Anyway, now finally running a DHCP server that can do both ipv4 and ipv6 in a single process.

When upgrading #opnsense I would have really liked to know in advance that it would remove my DHCP static ips and remove the current DHCP server without automatically enabling the new #Dnsmasq server.

I've found this wasn't very clear in advance.

Both having to first create static routes to reconfigure as well as having to rebuild my ranges and static IPs from memory was a pity.

Having a single DHCP server do both the IPV4 and IPV6 in one overview is really nice though!