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drnick1today at 3:16 AM3 repliesview on HN

And this is why I handroll my own routers/firewalls, using commodity hardware and a Linux distribution.


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ikiddtoday at 4:41 AM

Man, I remember doing this in the late 90s with ipchains as the only way to get a router that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Eventually consumer/prosumer routers came out.

What's old is new again.

SuperMousetoday at 6:30 AM

Tenda has good support among OpenWRT.

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matltctoday at 4:08 AM

Looking to do this to get off stock isp leased router. What's your hardware/distro rec?

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