Dear Sam (et al),
I do not know if this is stating the obvious, but DD-WRT is not to be
overlooked...
http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
This flashes to a number of commercial routers, often available in the
surplus environment... In any event do not overlook this and the entire
chain of products related.
Regards,
Flint
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:11:00 -0400
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Home Wi-fi device?
I can second Dan's recommendation: I bought one of their 24-port wifi-enabled
router/switches[1] for $200 last year from one of Newegg's fly-by-night affiliates to
cover my home "production" network and lab needs, and have been very pleased so
far. Management is possible via a Windows-only thick client (never used it), a web UI
(unremarkable but full-featured), and command line accessible via telnet (really?) and
SSH.
I also agree with Dan, though, in that RouterOS is a Beast of a Different Stripe — it bears little resemblance to LARTC
or Cisco (or even Adtran; no, not the "IOS-look-alike" Adtrans, you philistine! ;-)) — but I've found the
community around it to be mature enough that a reasonable "translation matrix" exists in Google's indices of
the forums. ("How do I get functionality like 'iptraf'?" "Oh, you want '/tool torch ...'")
YMMV,
-sth
[1]http://routerboard.com/CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD-IN
sam hooker | [email protected] | http://www.noiseplant.com
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
—Thomas Edison
On Aug 16, 2014, at 14:33, Dan Brisson <[email protected]> wrote:
I would look at Mikrotik routers: http://routerboard.com
RouterOS takes a little bit to get used to, but it does a million things.
-dan
Dan Brisson
Network Engineer
University of Vermont
(Ph) 802.656.8111
[email protected]
On 8/16/14, 2:16 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote:
Dear VAGUErs,
I am overdue for a replacement of my home wi-fi router. I have avoided
doing this because I would really like to have a device I control and
can trust...and that seems like a very small needle to find in the very
large haystack of home router options. So I'm wondering if someone on
this list has a recommendation.
Ideally, what I'd like is a dedicated device that is more or less plug
and play, but that can be fully configured, troubleshot(?), and managed
from a terminal if need be, preferably running some sort of *nix, and
preferably with a replaceable OS. The situation I most want to avoid is
the one I'm in now: I have a crappy router with no way to manage it
except via an afterthought web interface, which provides limited
configurability and very little information about what's happening when
something goes wrong.
I had a Raspberry Pi set up as a router for a while, which worked well
and was a breath of fresh air as far as configurability and management
goes, but the problem was that it would chew through SD cards. Running
a general purpose OS on the RPi apparently uses the filesystem enough
that it corrupts the SD card within a month or so if you leave it on
24/7. A device that runs at least enough *nix to provide full
management over SSH, but is more reliable and suited for always-on use
as a router, would be perfect.
I like the idea of using a plug computer as a router that could also run
various services (e.g. Tor, a firewall, a home web server), along the
lines of the FreedomBox [1]. But I haven't been able to find something
that is past the proof-of-concept stage and has been shown to actually
work as a dedicated device.
Any ideas? Or am I asking to have my cake and eat it too?
[1] http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360 Home
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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