commit 617355773ec4429dcb4a8b6a6a8df446699d6547
parent 5d51d15b86ffd60759bb1965be56fc5be3b0549b
Author: Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 21:21:27 +0100
explain relationship with NixWRT
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@@ -17,6 +17,34 @@ of "limen", or "of the threshold". Your router stands at the threshold
of your (online) home and everything you send to/receive from the
outside word goes across it.
+### What about NixWRT?
+
+This is an in-progress rewrite of NixWRT, incorporating Lessons
+Learned. That said, as of today (September 2022) it is not yet
+anywhere _near_ feature parity.
+
+Liminix will eventually provide these differentiators over NixWRT:
+
+* a writable filesystem so that software updates or reconfiguration
+ (e.g. changing passwords) don't require taking the device offline to
+ reflash it.
+
+* more flexible service management with dependencies, to allow
+ configurations such as "route through PPPoE if it is healthy, with
+ fallback to LTE"
+
+* a spec for valid configuration options (a la NixOS module options)
+ to that we can detect errors at evaluation time instead of producing
+ a bad image.
+
+* a network-based mechanism for secrets management so that changes can
+ be pushed from a central location to several Liminix devices at once
+
+* send device metrics and logs to a monitoring/alerting/o11y
+ infrastructure
+
+Today though, it does approximately none of these things and certainly
+not on real hardware.
## Building
