• @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    If you’re savy then install open wrt on it. If you want expert mode, then install pfsense on an old PC/laptop. If you want pucker factor, then install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it’s ip from the VM.

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      74 months ago

      install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it’s ip from the VM.

      Why are you like this, and who hurt you??

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        24 months ago

        It’s actually not bad to do it as long as your host machine has a static ip. Makes it easier to take a snapshot before you make major changes. Just be prepared with an extra router. If you have a family the second the Internet is not working you will be blamed.

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          14 months ago

          It’s actually not bad to do it as long as your host machine has a static ip

          Yeah, that’s reasonable

          install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it’s ip from the VM

          This not so much

          If you have a family the second the Internet is not working you will be blamed.

          Lol, I get blamed enough for DNS, I don’t need routing too

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      14 months ago

      What’s a good router one can use for openWRT? I just so happen to need a new one. No expert mode for me.

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          14 months ago

          Thanks! Just to be sure, the router company becomes inconsequential when I install openwrt, or am I mistaken?

          As in say I buy a linksys router and install openwrt, linksys can no longer spy on my traffic, so I shouldn’t worry about that, right?

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            24 months ago

            Yeah. There’s a possibility that there is a backdoor built into the soc, but that would be nation state level stuff that would be extremely difficult to uncover.

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              14 months ago

              Ok cool thanks, I’ll probably go with something on this list then. My other things I was looking at were the Turris Omnia and the Peplink B-one, but tbh a lynksys with openwrt will likely serve me fine.