rocketpool-research VS asuswrt-merlin.ng

What's to stop the authorities from outlawing all relays except the censoring ones? When you are forced to use MEV-boost trough threat of penalties (up to 80% of your stake!), then even those of us that "fell" for the decentralised promise of RP will be forced to be complicit in censorship.

Unfortunately RP is also starting to look more and more centralised. In the latest upgrade they introduce penalties which were not included in the original "dumb contract" between us, validators, and RP. What's worse, they speak of forcing validators use MEV-boost.

This surprised me a bit - I know this is how it works for a 16 eth node where it has to wait for another 16 eth to be matched and sent by the contract, but what about in my case? Am I still stuck waiting for the oDAO to confirm "everything looks right" (per here)? And if so, is there a way to see where I'm at on this queue? So is the contract holding the other 16 eth in the general pool and then will send it (basically "reserving" it for me)?

This is a better place to dive deeper into the research being done on this and other topics: https://github.com/rocket-pool/rocketpool-research

The minipool will wait for 12 hours while it gets vetted by the Oracle DAO to make sure it didn't abuse the Beacon Chain's withdrawal credentials exploit (this is known as the "scrub check")

We'll make sure to keep our awesome community updated as we go roll out our solution to this unexpected, but very welcomed addition to the protocol. https://github.com/rocket-pool/rocketpool-research/blob/master/Reports/withdrawal-creds-exploit.md

More info on this can be found here: https://medium.com/rocket-pool/the-merge-0x02-mev-and-the-future-of-the-protocol-c7451337ec40 and here: https://github.com/rocket-pool/rocketpool-research

Link to repository: https://github.com/rocket-pool/rocketpool-research/blob/master/delegate-upgrades.md

I think you need VPN director from Asuswrt Merlin https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/VPN-Director

Not an answer, but I have the AC5300 and like it. And if you're not aware, there's open source firmware for a lot of the Asus routers here. I use it and once again seems fine. Disclaimer, I'm not a power user, so probably can't answer anything more specific about VPN setup on the router itself, but from my understanding it is possible.

However, I am struggling with how to route the site-to-site client's WAN traffic through its own OVPN client connection. If I set up a rule routing all client subnet traffic through the OVPN connection, then the Wireguard rule never gets processed, because all OVPN rules are processed before any Wireguard rules.

Many (all?) of the ASUS routers supported by the Merlin firmware https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ have OpenVPN built-in. If you have an ISP-provide modem/router, you may be able to put it in transparent bridge mode.

However, it looks like only the older model is on sale. Go for the Asus and do research if you want Merlin or not.

Here's the official website. It has a list of supported routers: https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/

If you are somewhat good with computers, get an Asus router with a broadcom chipset that can run Merlin WRT. They are rock solid and feature packed (you can even adjust the wireless power level, since you're having wifi issues). There's a list of supported routers here: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Supported-Devices

Asus may be terrible in other parts of the company, but they're good in the wifi router department because they cooperate with their users to produce a better product: https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/