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> Truth is there's no good alternative other than pfSense but if you want Linux (hw support etc) I don't know if you can do better than vyos for routers. OpenW
by the_third_wave 3y ago
> Truth is there's no good alternative other than pfSense but if you want Linux (hw support etc) I don't know if you can do better than vyos for routers.
OpenWRT comes to mind, I've been using it for decades on first dedicated hardware, the last 6 years running in a container on a ProxMox box (DL380 G7). It has no problems whatsoever routing at (gigabit) line speed using a few megabytes of RAM and a few cores. Configuration is mostly declarative using UCI although it also offers the freedom (which comes with responsibility) to use scripts. I use the latter to deal with edge cases which lie outside of the purview of normal routing operations, e.g. triggered actions related to the use of Timelimit [1] on my daughter's phone, IoShit things with special needs, etc.
[1] https://codeberg.org/timelimit/timelimit-server https://codeberg.org/timelimit/timelimit-server