The first milestone of obtaining a DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 lease from my ISP and successfully pinging google from my laptop through router7 was reached on 2018-06-02.
I switched my home network to run on router7 on 2018-06-15.
Today is 2018-07-14, so it took about a month to polish before actually being able to publish it. But it was good enough to use less than a month after starting work on it. I only have a little bit of time in the mornings and evenings before/after my day job, and on some weekends, i.e. it could have been done in less time when working on it full-time.
I learnt about PXE booting, MBR boot loader code, details about DHCPv4, DHCPv6 (had previously not looked at DHCPv6 at all), how wireshark does ssh remote capture, and a bunch of other things I’m blanking on right now :). Lots of interesting details to be learnt in this space!
I find this single comment alone quite inspiring, let alone the project itself and its scope. You took a complex project from idea to working prototype in less than a month, while keeping the discipline and interest high enough to work the planning and implementation around your dayjob. And all the while, you clearly had enough knowledge to know what you didn't know, and enough planning to learn enough of it to push the project forward.
Meanwhile, some programmers (myself included) spend months dithering over the decision whether or not to start that simple web project that's been hanging around in their head for a year. Lots of respect to you. I'll be coming back to this comment again and again.
