On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 10:57, Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you actually use the Bell router functions, what do you use your > > own router for? > > > > - an AP + a switch? > > > > - double-NATting (seems like a bad idea)? > > Agreed. I run my VDSL2 modem in bridged mode with it's wifi turned off > (don't need more interference in the area), and then have a WRT1900ACv2 > running openwrt doing all the real work. And since it is running openwrt > I can install whatever service on it that I need. I used to route through > a linux box 15 years ago, but whyever would I do such a thing today? > One box does AP, switching, routing, PPPoE, DNS, DHCP, etc and nothing > on the network is confused. Nice and simple. > Just to provide an example of what you can possibly do with an OpenWrt router having only 512 MB of RAM. My three-years old Buffalo WXR-1900DHP, with extroot on a 1 TB external USB drive, runs: - all the usual networking stuff: PPPoE, basic and advanced ipv4 and ipv6 routing, DHCP and DNS (dnsmasq) - Nginx - PHP7 - OpenLDAP - Postfix - Dovecot + OpenDKIM - Transmission - Proftpd and the box just runs for months until I have to reboot it for upgrade or some other reason.
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