I use dd-wrt - http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index. I have been using it on an
ASUS RT-N16 router for years, and have had no issues.

Mark

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, eehouse wrote:
>
> > I've been running LEAF (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/)
> > for years on general purpose mini computers like those from
> > PCEngines (http://www.pcengines.ch/) and soekris
> > (https://soekris.com/). I'm happy with the hardware, but suspect
> > LEAF's original focus on fitting on floppy disks is keeping it from
> > being as featureful as I'd like.
> >
> > Any recommendations? I'm not afraid of commandline interfaces, but
> > am willing to use one those GUI thingies if it brings real benefits.
>
> I've had great luck with pfSense:
>
>    https://www.pfsense.org/download/
>
> It's BSD-based, so it uses pf rather than iptables for filtering, but
> it's easy to use, very feature-full, and doesn't have any trouble
> running on machines with Atom-class processors.
>
> Configuration is generally done via the GUI, though I've had occasion
> to change some things manually via command-line operations.
>
> > I think the most challenging thing I'm likely to want to configure
> > my router to do is switch from its outbound ethernet connection to
> > USB when a tethering smartphone is attached (since our DSL is MUCH
> > slower than LTE, and sometimes we really need the greater speed.)
>
> pfSense will support any USB NIC supported by FreeBSD, so you'll have
> to research its compatability with your hardware.
>
> --
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