andrew
Hello Photonicat Team,
First of all, thank you for the great work on the Photonicat 2 hardware and the recent stable firmware updates!
Many users utilize the Photonicat 2 as an advanced mobile gateway and travel router. This often requires complex routing capabilities and modern tunneling protocols for secure remote access to enterprise or home infrastructures. For example, tools like AmneziaWG are frequently needed to maintain stable connections across strict ISP NATs or firewalls, along with advanced Policy-Based Routing (PBR) and SD-WAN daemons. Currently, these modern networking packages are missing from the official Photonicat repository.
We cannot build these packages ourselves because the public OpenWrt source fork on GitHub is lagging behind the latest binary releases by about 2 months. This causes kernel hash (vermagic) mismatches when trying to compile custom kmod-* packages required for these VPN interfaces.
Proposed Solutions:
Option 1 (Preferred for users): Include advanced networking packages in the official repo
Could you please add popular modern tunneling and routing packages (e.g., AmneziaWG, advanced nftables modules, and modern routing daemons) to your official automated build process? This would allow us to simply install them via opkg to manage our infrastructure securely without breaking the stable vendor environment.
Option 2 (For developers): Sync the public source tree with binary releases
If maintaining extra packages is too much overhead, please sync the public source repository with the current binary releases. This will allow the community to compile our own custom kernel modules and networking packages that are perfectly compatible with your latest firmware.
Thank you for considering this!