[TriLUG] Router recommendations

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:44:43 -0400
Nathan Yinger via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> My old router bricked itself - I tried to restart it, and it won't
> turn back on. No ethernet, no wifi, not a single LED lights up on it.
> So now I need a new one.
> 
> What I'm looking for:
> - Lasts longer than 3 years.
> - 4 gigabit ports is fine.
> - I only use wifi a little bit, so any kind of wifi will do.
> - Easy shell access would be nice.

The way I do it is I put pfSense on a computer, with a network card for
each needed zone. For my LAN, I feed a pfSense port into a switch,
which feeds the LAN. For Wifi, I have a Wifi router configured to be an
access point only. It's more money, more moving parts, bigger, but I
know what's inside of it.

Mine is running on an old hand-me-down computer. If one lives in a warm
climate, the proper way is to put pfSense on a very low power computer.
Do as I say, not as I do.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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