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Re: Linux-Router

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Post by dsr_ »

This sort of thing is good in direct proportion to the quality of the documentation and support. If you don't know what you're doing, the fact that it works feels overwhelmingly important, but conceals the fundamental insecurity. If you do know what you're doing, do you agree with all the policy decisions being made here?

Good documentation and community can bring you out of darkness. I'm not sure this is doing that job as well as OpenWRT or a good distro's user mailing list.

Re: Linux-Router

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Post by brian_herman »

Oh wow I could of used this a couple months ago. I tried doing this myself. But, instead bought a ASUS router maybe when my asus router decides to crap out I will replace it with this defintely bookmarking and staring.

Re: Linux-Router

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Post by jrm4 »

Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand.

I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively proficient in Linux et al, it's my daily driver -- but I just ended up buying a load balancing router and using multiple routers etc.

It's frustrating knowing that I don't need it, but the family needed remote-work-class internet faster than I could learn how to do it my way.

Hopefully well see more stuff like this because, unless I missed something big, this space is dismal

Re: Linux-Router

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Post by m463 »

ncrmro wrote: post #6

Trying to figure out how to make a pi or my Linux workstation an access point bridged to my network has been tedious

You can run openwrt on your pi and do it that way.

Once you get familiar with openwrt, it does a lot of interesting things.

I did it as an experiment and have a pi running openwrt as an ntp server. it's behaved very well.

Re: Linux-Router

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Post by azinman2 »

jrm4 wrote: post #7

Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…

Just grab something like pfSense or any variant that will give you a GUI to do this wayyyyy more easily and with someone knowledgable configuring it and testing it.
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