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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

In sure the idea is that anyone who cares enough to buy specific hardware for openWRT is going to almost certainly have a standalone ethernet switch with far more than 4 devices plugged in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

with far more than 4 devices plugged in

Even more important, I don't want layer 1 dropping on my devices just because my internet gateway rebooted, especially if I'm using DHCP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Honey, what do you think runs on those ethernet switches?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why would I? I just want to run OpenWRT for the features, I don't even use ethernet other than the port in