Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
On 07/29/2015 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. I've been happy with the Buffalo router recommended by denizens of this list. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
I like both pfSense (commercially available from netgate as an appliance) and Juniper’s small srx line. With pfSense you get a nice gui that supports all the things you need (nat, firewall, ipv6, vlan). You can also optionally install pkgs like squid to proxy for your home. On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. -- Paul ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowskilou...@cryptomonkeys.org mailto:lou...@cryptomonkeys.org Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
Good call on Juniper SRX. Super solid boxes! On Jul 30, 2015, at 16:31, Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org wrote: I like both pfSense (commercially available from netgate as an appliance) and Juniper’s small srx line. With pfSense you get a nice gui that supports all the things you need (nat, firewall, ipv6, vlan). You can also optionally install pkgs like squid to proxy for your home. On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. -- Paul ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowskilou...@cryptomonkeys.org mailto:lou...@cryptomonkeys.org Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
I just got an ASUS RT-66U just recently. It has been working for me just fine with the base firmware but I can also change the firmware out to DD-WRT or OpenWRT. On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Dick Steffens d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: On 07/29/2015 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. I've been happy with the Buffalo router recommended by denizens of this list. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
Last time I had to make this decision I ended up taking the easy way out and going with the top recommended option on wirecutter: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/ I've been pretty happy with the device and haven't had to muck with it much. It does require a restart to make static dhcp leases which is completely dumb but it's also the only thing i've found that's out of line so far. Prior I explored using a routerboard for this at home but found it was limited in it's support for UPNP and DLNA. I also had good luck repurposing a checkpoint vpn device as a pfsense box. It was just intel hardware which made it easy to install pfsense on. Thats probably not a common thing for someone to come across though. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. -- Paul ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] Waveguide and antennas
https://goo.gl/photos/TAgMNoE3VWr4Jxuy6 Throwing out some stuff from work, and the boss said I could have it. Anyone want a long piece of wave guide and some old wifi antennas? They have to be gone today, I could possibly deliver them this afternoon. -Sy -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] Waveguide and antennas
https://goo.gl/photos/TAgMNoE3VWr4Jxuy6 Throwing out some stuff from work, and the boss said I could have it. Anyone want a long piece of wave guide and some old wifi antennas? They have to be gone today, I could possibly deliver them this afternoon. -Sy ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. -- Paul ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter is a great little box for SOHO. Pfsense as well, but you'd need either an old box with a couple of NICs or buy one of their official hardware devices. On Jul 29, 2015, at 23:43, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. -- Paul ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Home Router Recommendations
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net wrote: I've been neglecting the firmware on my eight-year-old Linksys wireless router for too long now, and my research leads me to believe that it's just too old to support modern firmware distributions like OpenWRT and DD-WRT. What are the cool kids using these days? My needs are basic; this old Linksys has served just fine for years, after all. My only real concern is maintainability of the underlying operating system. I would be willing to spend more if the hardware could support a plain Linux or OpenBSD system, though. Something that runs a modern version of openwrt could be nice. I am running cerowrt which is a branch of openwrt built for doing research on bufferbloat. http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/news Most of that development was done on Netgear WNDR 3800 (or 3700v2) routers, but the most useful bits of that research have been merged back into openwrt in the Barrier Breaker version. So I would recommend any router running Barrier Breaker. The fq_codel they developed is supposedly now in the mainline kernel so a heftier router running a newer kernel might also be a way to go. Bill ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
