Bringing br_netfilter functionality to ancient kernel 4.1

[privacyguy123]

I'm on RT-AX58U trying to figure out a complex marking/QoS setup and it would help greatly to have this feature. I understand newer kernels have it by default maybe? Any advice on how I could work around not having it?

 

[dave14305]

You could compile your own firmware after enabling the module.

asuswrt-merlin.ng/release/src-rt-5.02axhnd.675x/kernel/linux-4.1/config_base.6a.6750 at 3004.388 · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

From

# CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER is not set

to

CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER=m

What kind of tricks do you want to use it for?

 

[privacyguy123]

I was hoping to be able to tag traffic headed for wgc1 (with MARKS) through the br0 interface so that we can shape it's ingress traffic with different overhead to the WAN traffic and maintain DCSP/TOS markings etc as ingress on wgc1 is encrypted garbled nonsense that CAKE can never understand.

EDIT: Any guidance for setting up the build environment for this? I don't recognize any of this. I often build ROMs and kernels for Android phones so maybe I have the majority of the stuff needed already downloaded?