On 2023-09-09 22:08, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
I was thinking in terms of features. As a (lapsed) CCNA, I agree
they can be "fun" to configure.
I was thinking in terms of product quality.
I have seen switches with up to 10% of ports with problems.
It also seemed to me from that outside
On 2023-09-09 15:10, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:45:47PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
OpenWRT is a Debian based distribution that has been tuned to run in a small
footprint that usually comes with consumer appliances but it is by no means
limited to just that form
On 2023-09-09 16:47, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 2023-09-09 15:10, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
Being closer to Cisco is not an advantage in my books.
No kidding.
I was thinking in terms of features. As a (lapsed) CCNA, I agree they
can be "fun" to configure.
I was thinking
On 2023-09-09 15:10, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
Being closer to Cisco is not an advantage in my books.
No kidding.
I was thinking in terms of features. As a (lapsed) CCNA, I agree they
can be "fun" to configure.
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On Sat, 9 Sept 2023 at 15:07, Lennart Sorensen
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> On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, OpenWRT retains all manually installed
> > packages during system upgrade if you use their "sysupgrade" utility,
> with
> > the exception
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 12:45:47PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> Being closer to Cisco is not an advantage in my books.
No kidding. :)
> OpenWRT is a Debian based distribution that has been tuned to run in a small
> footprint that usually comes with consumer appliances but it is by no
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, OpenWRT retains all manually installed
> packages during system upgrade if you use their "sysupgrade" utility, with
> the exception of the x86_64 platform. On x86_64, upgrading is indeed a
> pain.
On 2023-09-09 09:23, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Do you mean as a server or as a client?
Client. I don't run DHCPv6 on my LAN. I use SLAAC. Rogers provides
IPv6 via DHCPv6-PD. I switched from a Linux firewall/router to pfSense,
as SuSE Linux didn't support it. I have no idea if
| From: James Knott via talk
| On 2023-09-07 13:36, Scott Allen wrote:
| > I'm sure OpenWRT can do them just as well, once configured. I haven't looked
| > at OpenWRT lately but I previously got the impression that many add-on
| > packages and even built-in features didn't include GUI
On 2023-09-08 14:49, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
More to your point, it may be convenient for your router to have more
than two ethernet ports. Giles' box only has two, yours and mine have
four. (Giles's box sure is cute.
Mine has 4. The other day, I mentioned I received a catalog
| From: James Knott via talk
| You might want a guest VLAN/SSID. I have my firewall configured so that the
| only thing a guest can do on my network is ping the guest VLAN interface.
| Beyond that, they can only access the Internet. I even point them to Google's
| DNS server, instead of mine.
On 2023-09-08 11:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I've been using PCs as my gateway machine for perhaps 25 years. I've
been lazy and only changed when forced to (and sometimes slow at
that). I've always run some Red Hat distro (RHL, CentOS, Fedora).
I had been using an HP compact
Reviewing your original request (sorry, I lost it due to spam filtering
in Thunderbird) ... I think this guide might get you in the direction
you want:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-router-from-scratch/
The guide is quite old (last updated ~2018)
| From: Giles Orr via talk
| As per my previous post, I just purchased a mini-PC which I intend to
| turn into a router. Is anyone aware of a guide for turning a Debian
| PC into a _home_ router? I'd like to be running probably DNSmasq,
| using a blocklist, stuff like that. I've found
Good discussion, everyone.
I think there's merit to *WRT & *Sense distributions.
Might I add a few other things to consider, if GUI isn't the concern.
If you want features & good stability/security:
*VyOS* (https://vyos.io/) -- it's fairly easy to build the image and
have the latest LTS
On 2023-09-07 10:20 a.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote:
As per my previous post, I just purchased a mini-PC which I intend to
turn into a router. Is anyone aware of a guide for turning a Debian
PC into a _home_ router? I'd like to be running probably DNSmasq,
using a blocklist, stuff like that.
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 13:42, James Knott wrote:
> Does it support DHCPv6-PD?
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/configuration
"Automatic bootstrap from SLAAC, stateless DHCPv6, stateful DHCPv6,
DHCPv6-PD and any combination"
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On 2023-09-07 13:36, Scott Allen wrote:
I'm sure OpenWRT can do them just as well, once configured. I haven't
looked at OpenWRT lately but I previously got the impression that many
add-on packages and even built-in features didn't include GUI
extensions. Configuration of these had to be done
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 12:56, James Knott wrote:
> I don't doubt OpenWRT can do those things, but can they do them as well as
> pfSense?
I'm sure OpenWRT can do them just as well, once configured. I haven't
looked at OpenWRT lately but I previously got the impression that many
add-on packages
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 12:28, Scott Allen wrote:
> With OpenWRT, it appears you have to re-install any manually installed
> packages after a system upgrade. Another problem with OpenWRT is that
> they seem to frequently up the minimum hardware requirements (flash
> and RAM) and drop support for
On 2023-09-07 12:27, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
With OPNsense, you can check if a new release is available from the
router's GUI itself and updating appears to be straightforward, either
from the GUI or the console.
It is likewise very easy to update in pfSense. All I have to do is open
On 2023-09-07 12:48, Scott Allen wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 12:21, James Knott via talk wrote:
it supports routing protocols such as OSPF & BGP
https://www.linuxtechguy.com/2020/11/27/dynamic-routing-using-ospf-on-openwrt/
https://docs.daper.io/networking/bgp/openwrt/
I don't doubt
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 12:21, James Knott via talk wrote:
> it supports routing protocols such as OSPF & BGP
https://www.linuxtechguy.com/2020/11/27/dynamic-routing-using-ospf-on-openwrt/
https://docs.daper.io/networking/bgp/openwrt/
> One is my main LAN, which also has a VLAN for my guest WiFi
On 2023-09-07 12:21, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk
wrote:
A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT.
I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense do provide.
I'm moving from DD-WRT to OPNsense (or maybe pfSense). One of the
primary reasons I'm doing so is for keeping the firmware up to date. With
all the "WRT"
On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk
wrote:
A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT.
I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense do
provide.
Quite a lot. pfSense (OPNsense is a
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk wrote:
> A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT.
>
I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense do
provide.
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On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:08, Scott Allen wrote:
> BSD, and thus pfSense or OPNsense, is limited in the chipsets that it
> supports as an access point.
I intended to include a URL:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/wireless/hardware.html
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On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 10:21, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> If it turns out to be direly difficult, pfsense may happen later.
What chipset is used for WiFi? BSD, and thus pfSense or OPNsense, is
limited in the chipsets that it supports as an access point.
Just curious; how/where is the WiFi
On 2023-09-07 10:39, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
Then, you can run OpenWRT as a VM. OpenWRT has everything you'll ever
need in a home router, and more.
A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT.
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On 2023-09-07 10:20, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
Please don't suggest pfsense: I'm well aware of it, and it may well be
better. But I'm very adept at managing Debian, and initially at least
I intend to try to set this up. If it turns out to be direly
difficult, pfsense may happen later.
I
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 10:21, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> As per my previous post, I just purchased a mini-PC which I intend to
> turn into a router. Is anyone aware of a guide for turning a Debian
> PC into a _home_ router? I'd like to be running probably DNSmasq,
> using a blocklist, stuff
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