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> Replace your router every few years How about instead of this, use open source software on your router? It will keep being updated, and with the manufacture
by _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
> Replace your router every few years
How about instead of this, use open source software on your router? It will keep being updated, and with the manufacturer's proprietary software on the device you can't really trust it anyway.
- sp332 8y agoYour odds might be better, but there's no guarantee that the software will keep being updated. DD-WRT for many models is simply defunct, for example.
- 2-4-Flinching 8y agoThat is the reason I run a pfsense router/firewall. You never worry they are going to stop supporting your device cause your device is x86 with FreeBSD base.
- ris 8y agoAnd how much money are you bleeding running that machine 24/7?
- stamps 8y agoNot OP but I run a PC Engines APU2[1] as my pfsense box. It's 6-10 watts. Updates are easy to manage, I use Pfblocker which is similar functionality to PiHole, and have cloudflares DNS (1.1.1.1) set up. As for wireless I attach a Ubiquiti AP through a switch. I've done this at a couple different sites for relatives and it's comforting to know there's some semblence of security and privacy for them. [1] http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
- kop316 8y agoI have one of those as well. As a word of caution, they are dropping support for that in 2.5 [1]. Starting in 2.5, they are requiring AES-NI instructions (like I said in my other post, I am a bit irritated they did that, especially when that is a requirement for something I do not need). [1]https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html
- edwhitesell 8y agoShouldn't be too much. You can buy one [SG-1000] linked from pfsense that is only 2.5W (idle) draw.
- deno 8y agoFor 100 MBit/s firewall all you need is Raspberry PI. Most people’s WAN connection is probably less than that. And if you need gigabit then there’s still plenty of options, anything from ODROID-C to 10W Goldmont, the latter a little expensive but it can double as HTPC etc. Idk how any of those work with BSDs but they work fine on Linux. Also the nic.cz people have a neat new product[1]. It’s really cool, but I think still too pricey. [1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-source-router-security-computers#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-mox-modular-open-s...
- fulafel 8y agoRPi systems die too frequently unless you get the right kind of sd cards and power adapters.
- sp332 8y agoLast I checked pfsense wasn't running on ARM. And there were worries that it wouldn't even be able to keep up unless you were very careful with your filters, although that might be less of a problem with the more recent hardware.
- deno 8y agoI suppose at gigabit the pi might have some issues. Unfortunately, I don’t have this problem. I doubt Goldmont would break any sweat though. If you don’t want to jump all the way to Intel there’s always this: http://espressobin.net/ http://espressobin.net/
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agothe SG-1000 that pfsense sells is listed as ARM: https://www.netgate.com/solutions/pfsense/sg-1000.html https://www.netgate.com/solutions/pfsense/sg-1000.html
- 2-4-Flinching 8y agoNot much. Have not noticed a real increase in my electric bill. However, it is a mini desktop and designed to be low power. Probably far less then my Plex Server easily. There are options for much lower power hardware. I may do an experiment to see. Be kinda interesting but also hard to duplicate traffic effect and CPU loads. However the reliable updates, advanced firewall, physical multi LAN, and durable VPN can't be understated for my use.
- kop316 8y agoActually, that is not strictly so [1]. Starting in 2.5, they are requiring AES-NI instructions. I am a bit irritated with that as I bought one of their "official" routers to support them (The one based on the PC Engine APU2) and I use it as a home router, so I really don't need that support. [1]https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html
- stamps 8y agoSaid it below, but the APU2 does support AES-NI. I wanted to make sure you saw this.
- kop316 8y agoThank you for that, I made a mistake. I was thinking of the APU1.
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- Fnoord 8y agoYou can always swap to OPNSense. I'm annoyed they discontinued support for x86-32. My Soekris could run with a VPN board and saturate its 100 mbit ports. Good news there as well is that OPNSense supports x86-32 just fine though.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoSure. Be at least you're likely to get rather longer support than from the manufacturer. (And, length of support aside, not having concealed code running on the thing that handles both my internal and external networking is somewhat valuable to me.)
- rhinoceraptor 8y agoThat's a good solution for geeks, not so much for everyone else. Regular people don't even update their routers, much less flash 3rd party software on them. I don't think most people even know updating your router is even a possibility. I use Google Wifi and it updates itself. In the future I might put in a PFSense, but wifi solutions like Google Wifi/Eero/etc are the way to go if you're not a computer person.
- rogerbinns 8y ago> Regular people don't even update their routers I work on a product that gets connected to people's home wifi. In the last year we've had several with routers running WEP security. WEP was superseded in 2003 by WPA, and deprecated in 2004!
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoThis does sound like a good general model. Assuming it has a 2nd partition or whatever to guarantee you'll never end up with a non-working router.
- albertop 8y agoThat may be behind the Eero move to go subscription only. Could be good if implemented properly but much more expensive that just buying a high end router.
- lozaning 8y agoPlume just announced that you'll need to buy an annual cloud license for their new stuff as well. I just dont see this taking off as a business model. How large is the intersection of people who know give a high enough importance to router security with the people who couldn't roll their own solution?
- teddyfrozevelt 8y agoPlume is the one that switched to subscription only. Eero plus is only extras, the eero’s themselves are still up front and subscription free. https://reddit.com/r/eero/comments/8qlgbw/_/e0k704c/?context=1 https://reddit.com/r/eero/comments/8qlgbw/_/e0k704c/?context...