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Up until now, I thought OpenWRT and OPNSense were the only robust options out there. Glad to know about this featureful open source router.

camtarn 5y ago
Well, this one is built on top of OpenWRT. I guess it depends whether what they've built has added enough utility to be considered different from it?
- cassianoleal 5y ago
  I own a Turris Omnia. It's been my main router for over 2 years. I don't use a lot of the stuff they've added on top of vanilla OpenWRT, but there are a few things that make me want to stay and probably buy the next hardware revision when it comes around: - The hardware support is great - The ability to add M.2 SSD for running LXC containers and generally saving data (logs, etc) without worrying about wearing out the internal flash - BTRFS snapshots with a handy CLI to manage them, rollback, etc (also on the web UI if that's your thing) - Automatic upgrades - Automatic snapshotting before and after upgrades, which is great if an upgrade bricks it. Hasn't happened to me even once but it's good to know it's there. - Hardware button can be used to restore latest snapshot or factory - When restoring previous snapshot doesn't cut it, restoring factory keeps snapshots around so you can easily get back to your previous configs and fix forward - Declarative package management - Full access to pretty much everything OpenWRT has to offer anyway - caveat that if you customise certain things you can't use the "official" web UI (reForis) for those. My network config is managed exclusively over LuCI, uci, config files, for instance. - Open, hackable hardware Edit: formatting
  - camtarn 5y ago
    Hm, I really like all the snapshotting features! And the M.2 slot and hackable hardware are definitely a plus.
  - pabs3 5y ago
    Hmm, I din't think the Omnia had an M.2 slot, I guess you are talking about then next hardware revision. It isn't clear there will be one, considering there is Turris MOX now.
    - cassianoleal 5y ago
      Huh, you're right. It's been a while since I added mine but it's indeed not an M.2, it's an mSATA. Thanks for the correction.

camtarn 5y ago

Well, this one is built on top of OpenWRT. I guess it depends whether what they've built has added enough utility to be considered different from it?

cassianoleal 5y ago
I own a Turris Omnia. It's been my main router for over 2 years. I don't use a lot of the stuff they've added on top of vanilla OpenWRT, but there are a few things that make me want to stay and probably buy the next hardware revision when it comes around: - The hardware support is great - The ability to add M.2 SSD for running LXC containers and generally saving data (logs, etc) without worrying about wearing out the internal flash - BTRFS snapshots with a handy CLI to manage them, rollback, etc (also on the web UI if that's your thing) - Automatic upgrades - Automatic snapshotting before and after upgrades, which is great if an upgrade bricks it. Hasn't happened to me even once but it's good to know it's there. - Hardware button can be used to restore latest snapshot or factory - When restoring previous snapshot doesn't cut it, restoring factory keeps snapshots around so you can easily get back to your previous configs and fix forward - Declarative package management - Full access to pretty much everything OpenWRT has to offer anyway - caveat that if you customise certain things you can't use the "official" web UI (reForis) for those. My network config is managed exclusively over LuCI, uci, config files, for instance. - Open, hackable hardware Edit: formatting
- camtarn 5y ago
  Hm, I really like all the snapshotting features! And the M.2 slot and hackable hardware are definitely a plus.
- pabs3 5y ago
  Hmm, I din't think the Omnia had an M.2 slot, I guess you are talking about then next hardware revision. It isn't clear there will be one, considering there is Turris MOX now.
  - cassianoleal 5y ago
    Huh, you're right. It's been a while since I added mine but it's indeed not an M.2, it's an mSATA. Thanks for the correction.