Experimental Gargoyle 1.15.x (released as 1.14) beta 20230124

[Lantis]

No we won’t support any mvebu routers this time around due to an upstream issue. There are no 22.03.3+ releases for these either.
We will pick them up again as soon as possible.

[ccruz464]

Hi, I've been a user for some time (since version 1.5.6), having started to manage the home network because of my son who is asperger's. basically to impose bandwidth restrictions and on certain sites that I consider harmful. Gargoyle's interface has helped me a lot, because I can't adapt to not very friendly openwrt's interface. My question is..: there is a possibility that in this test version (beta) support for adguard (home) will appear in place of the adblock plugin? I downloaded and installed this version on one of the spare test routers I have (there are two WDR4300 V1). The main routers on the network are three Archer C7 V4. Thanks!

PS: Is there Archer C5 V2 support? no? do i have to throw it away in a trash can?

[ispyisail]

impose bandwidth restrictions and on certain sites

Block or Throttle?

Since the web has gone mostly encrypted, restrictions are difficult per site at router level.

I just limit hours and then hard cut off

In my opinion, You really need to install an app on each device like bitdefender to manage conent.

[pythonic]

Is there Archer C5 V2 support? no? do i have to throw it away in a trash can?

This is a Broadcom chipset device with a single core ARM CPU. OpenWrt has support for it in the bcm53xx target but the 2.4GHz radio is only partly functional and the 5GHz radio isn't functional at all. You could build a custom Gargoyle image for the device with current sources and it would probably work as a router only (though I'd install OpenWrt first then sysupgrade to Gargoyle) however I'd expect the single CPU core would limit performance to not much better than the Archer C7 v4/v5.

[Lantis]

Unless anyone is working on an Adguard plugin currently and hasn't told me, no sorry.

[pythonic]

Just had a look at the OpenWrt AGH package docs and it looks impractical to install in most devices - of the targets now supported in Gargoyle, really only the bcm27xx (Raspberry Pi) and x86 targets would have sufficient RAM and storage; possibly the Rockchip and Mediatek targets too.

[ccruz464]

impose bandwidth restrictions and on certain sites

Block or Throttle?

decrease the speed and impose a daily quota to the navigation of everyone here. I have been successful in this intention. A website or a .url I know it's much harder, so I use DNS from NextDNS and UltraDNS.

Since the web has gone mostly encrypted, restrictions are difficult per site at router level.

yes, it is true. I have IPv6 here and rules per machine too.

I just limit hours and then hard cut off

In my opinion, You really need to install an app on each device like bitdefender to manage conent.

Perhaps this is not possible unless World War III starts here. haha

[Bedlore]

Hiya, I run a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v3 and today updated from:
1.13.X (Built 20210126-1716 git@0c75cab9) ->
1.15.X (Built 20230418-1112 git@acaaac1d)

I've only been running it for a couple of hours but stability seems low although I've been poking it a lot to maybe its that. The main problem I've encountered is that hostnames are note been resolved and the quota page is blank.

Now that IPv6 is enabled I'm just getting lots of these type entries in the B/W Distribution page.
Gargoyle ( 94.9% / 87.1% / 97.7% )
ff02::1 ( 2.5% / 9.7% / 0% )
fe80::62e3fec4:a8ea ( 1.6% / 0% / 2.2% )
etc. so not very helpful.

Initially I tried to preserve settings quick I later realised was a bad idea, so I reapplied the update this time not preserving anything.

Can anyone help me get quotes working please?

[pythonic]

First check how much free flash space you have - there have been reports of some 8MB flash devices not having sufficient flash space to save settings properly. You'll need to connect via SSH and run the df command; check the space reported for /overlay.

Unfortunately 8MB flash devices are marginal for Gargoyle with the OpenWrt 22.03 base despite significant efforts to minimise flash usage in images. If free flash space is the issue, your only option may be to use an extroot configuration with USB storage.

[Bedlore]

Thanks @pythonic

I suspect your correct

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root@Gargoyle:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 6.0M      6.0M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    28.5M     96.0K     28.4M   0% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock4          448.0K    300.0K    148.0K  67% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay      448.0K    300.0K    148.0K  67% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev

I found gargoyle_format_usb but couldn't find info non using it. However it worked when I ran:
gargoyle_format_usb /dev/sda 20 ext4 extroot
It seems to have worked but now what?

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root@Gargoyle:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 6.0M      6.0M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    28.5M    800.0K     27.7M   3% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock4          448.0K    288.0K    160.0K  64% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay      448.0K    288.0K    160.0K  64% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
root@Gargoyle:~# 
root@Gargoyle:~# 
root@Gargoyle:~# block info
/dev/mtdblock3: UUID="81858b7e-eaed4136-bf351bf6-c8f164e1" VERSION="4.0" MOUNT="/rom" TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/mtdblock4: MOUNT="/overlay" TYPE="jffs2"
/dev/sda1: UUID="CEAC-F468" LABEL="RESCUE1001" VERSION="FAT32" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: VERSION="1" TYPE="swap"

Not sure what to do from here, do I need to re-upload the gargoyle firmware perhaps?