Hi, On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 at 9:39 +0200, Markus Wigge wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm just thinking about the way to save configuration data on a router...
Good that you start this important discussion. We need to find a
very good solution for this.
> It was a nice way to save most of it to nvram, not only because it was
> partly portable between the original firmware and (Open|Free)WRT but
> also because one could upgrade the firmware image without loosing the data.
> I'd like to administer lots of VPN appliance devices spread around the
> country and want to be able to upgrade the devices to keep track of
> bugfixes etc. But with all config in "/etc/config" this might be
> overwritten on an update or am I completly wrong here?
No, you are right. I choose Kamikaze as base for FreeWRT, because of
the better buildroot environment. This does not mean we will keep
/etc/config.
> The other way around it is not very likely to save X509 Certificates in
> nvram to have them persistently available so what about an "extra /etc
> partition" which is writeable and static throughout firmware updates?
>
> any suggestions?
We need to find a general solution. Joerg and me discussed this a
few times, but still not ready to come up with a perfect solution.
We are thinking about a special Fuse filesystem, which mounts some
(two or three) flash blocks and presents a normal filesystem with
can be read and written.
May be Joerg will explain the idea later.
bye
Waldemar
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