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Like is the "free" laptop going to cost you more in the long-run then a nice little power-sipping ARM like a Pi5? Or do you need those extra operations-per-second that the more power-hungry x86 CPU gets you?
Surely something like OPNsense/PFsense would be better for the average user than setting up all the software manually?
nftables syntax is pretty tough to read. I wonder why they didn't go for an easier to read DSL. I do understand it's likely super fast to parse though, and has a 1:1 relationship to its struct in the kernel.
I’ll pick nftables over iptables any day, it’s leagues better (granted, it’s not hard). The nftables wiki is great, as the syntax and modules are documented in a single easy to read page. As an added bonus, you get atomic updates of all chains for free. Granted, for simple usecases, ufw or firewalld may be simpler though.
This really takes me back. My first actual 'use' for Linux was making routers out of leftover computers. The perfect machine back then was a 100MHz Pentium, in a slimline desktop case. At the time, the Pentium III was the current desktop chip, so you'd have a pile of early Pentium-class machines to use. And even a 10mb ISA network card (3Com if possible) would have plenty of power for the internet connections of the…
That snowballed into “we want a website do you know how to do that?” and. Well, no, but it had Apache available and I … figured things out enough to take the skills elsewhere.
Repeated the same trick with a place in Wisconsin, who initially shared a 56k dialup connection with all their dispatchers and were impressed the thing had stayed up for 900 days without even redialing. 90% of their work was done in an on-prem wyse terminal anyway, dialup used to do the job for email or googling an address.
27, 28 years later I’m still dragged in front of them once in a while to ask how they can accomplish something cheaply with Linux, bubble gum, paper clips, or whatever . The times and technology have changed, but not how cheap they are!
The first two versions of 225 have packet drop issues and it’s unclear to me whether v3 third time lucky fixed it. And getting the stepping info out of aliexpress supplier is hard so 226 is safer
Anyone has done mesh WiFi (ideally triband) using off the shelf parts and Linux? I have an Orbi AX system which works reliably, but now I want to upgrade the radio to WiFi 7 and that means I need to upgrade all the hardware. Hoping to move to using off the shelf parts so in the future I can just change the radio (ideally bunch of USB sticks). I understand this is not strictly just the router. I can (and used to have)…
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There are a whole lot of normal people using mesh networking Wi-Fi routers. Honestly, most of the least technical people that I know are all using mesh networks because their houses require it.
Certainly. But it's still a minority use case. Perhaps someone else will (or did) write up a how-to for support mesh networking in your homebrew router.
I'm curious about the policy rationale behind banning router imports. If a government were considering legislation like that, what would the primary concern usually be? Given that so much internet traffic is now protected by TLS/SSL and other encryption, why would it still matter if citizens were using routers that might be backdoored? Is the concern mainly things like botnets and DDoS activity, weak default credenti…