This weekend completed an install of libreCMC on a TP-Link WR841N (a $20 router easily acquired from Amazon or CanadaComputers locally). I was very impressed at how quickly and easily the install and setup went.

My previous exprience with OpenWRT was a bit on the painful side (lots of manual configuration editing, package installing, etc, to get a usable router). Being a fork, I expected the libreCMC install to be a long and fairly painful setup.

Getting a simple setup going quickly was easy thanks to the LuCI web interface.

There was one thing I had to resort to using a command-line for: blackholing some hostnames (fb.com, etc, go to 127.0.0.1 to prevent leakage, which required manually editing /etc/dnsmasq.conf to add "address=/fb.com/127.0.0.1" and a restart of dnsmasq).

There's a second issue that I haven't found a good answer for yet. My ISP (start.ca) provides IPv6 via 6rd, for which there's a LuCI configuration package installed. Actually making use of that configuration item requires a separate package "6rd" which isn't available in libreCMC, but is available in OpenWRT. It appears to be all Free Software, so should be a candidate for inclusion in libreCMC.

Asking in the IRC channel has so far only led to the suggestion of rebuilding libreCMC from source. I'm hopeful that a binary package can be created (and installed by default, maybe?) so that future users can get easy access to IPv6 from ISPs that use 6rd rather than a full DHCPv6 client.