Ars has a guide to building your own router but it just boils down to
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How would Holla Forums do it? Maybe pfsense would do a better job? Or OpenBSD with pf configured manually? How about hardware? I know there's a bunch of ARM bros on here.
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ipfire or openwrt
and pcengines hardware
this thread is relevant to my interests
thanks for the suggestions but why choose those?
I use pfsense because it's easy to manage and upgrade, especially good for other coworkers who can't into CLI.
I do manage one OpenBSD box that acts as the primary gateway/vpn server for a multi site WAN.
OpenBSD in the end is probably superior, but you do have to know your shit.
Intel NICs are superior, inb4 botnet, their open source drivers are fantastically supported,
I've had nothing but trouble with linux for routing/vpn, either it's because I'm in BSD mode all day errey day or I just suck and OpenVPN defaults.
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Get this and put pfsense on it, it's the exact same as they sell with pfsense but 100 bucks cheaper.
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Unreleated but can anyone point to a better wireless solution than Ubiquiti? I use them in all the stores because they're just too god damn easy but their lack of freedom irks me.
Buy the 2220 and put OpenBSD on it.
Buy the ubiquiti above and install OpenBSD, it's half the price ^O^
The router is one thing, what about the modem?
Just forget the firmware, goy.
MIPS hardware, openwrt.
Probably this depends on distro. IMHO I find all linux distros kinda bloated with useless shit + doing stuff behind my back annoying especially if I am setting up service which I need to do one thing good. Then again this might be my own fault not specific linux-distros problem.
Never used this this AFAIK this is based on FreeBSD which pf is kinda "old" compared to current OpenBSD. Some macro features are not implemented etc But still might be solid solution. Then again I am not sure is pfsense based on pf or the other firewall variants which FreeBSD provides
I would choose this.
Sure why not.
Yes I am biased but god damn pf configuration (or anythin else what OpenBSD community produces smtpd/doas/httpd) is fucking great
I'll save you the trouble and suggest pfSense - pfsense.org
Works better than any Linux router OS I've tried and has a ton of packages (I use Snort and Service Watchdog)