OpenWrt
Reddit take
Not enough linked mention summaries yet; the source excerpts below are the evidence.
Pros
- the best thing to do would be to replace the stock firmware with OpenWRT if your router is supported, as this will give you a far better, open source firmware with a lot of configurability and additional options and features.
- In fact it's reversed that some networking features missing from BSD platform, or not doing better, like PPPoE, and MAP-E/transix IPv6 dual stack support, not to mention WiFi.
- You can definitely assign arbitary vlans to arbitary ports. It may not be intuitive in the Luci UI, but it certainly can be done. ... You can definitely firewall between subnets. You just have to know iptables syntax well enough.
- I'd really like to play around with something like Opnsense or openwrt to learn how to setup a more sophisticated network with VLANS
- Seems insane that people didn’t learn until days later on Reddit that it can’t clone a MAC address for the WiFi it connects to which is … a feature openWRT has had for 20 years.
Cons
- a couple mini PCs, one running as an OpenWRT router
- So I went for a Nanopi-T6 starting with the vendor version of OoenWRT.
- I do the same with cheap openwrt or mikrotik routers for those worthy enough.
- Parent context: Hmmmm, i mean op can install openWRT…. Reply: I've heard mixed reviews about doing that, both from ease of use and performance considerations.
- Next step: installing OpenWRT on that FRITZ!Box (unless your ISP uses a weird configuration or it's unsupported).
Sentiment
52 positive (66%) · 23 mixed (29%) · 4 negative (5%)
Trust + time weighted score: +61% · raw score 61%
What redditors said (10 of 79)
the best thing to do would be to replace the stock firmware with OpenWRT if your router is supported, as this will give you a far better, open source firmware with a lot of configurability and additional options and features.
In fact it's reversed that some networking features missing from BSD platform, or not doing better, like PPPoE, and MAP-E/transix IPv6 dual stack support, not to mention WiFi.
a couple mini PCs, one running as an OpenWRT router
You can definitely assign arbitary vlans to arbitary ports. It may not be intuitive in the Luci UI, but it certainly can be done. ... You can definitely firewall between subnets. You just have to know iptables syntax well enough.
I'd really like to play around with something like Opnsense or openwrt to learn how to setup a more sophisticated network with VLANS
Seems insane that people didn’t learn until days later on Reddit that it can’t clone a MAC address for the WiFi it connects to which is … a feature openWRT has had for 20 years.
So I went for a Nanopi-T6 starting with the vendor version of OoenWRT.
I do the same with cheap openwrt or mikrotik routers for those worthy enough.
Parent context: Hmmmm, i mean op can install openWRT…. Reply: I've heard mixed reviews about doing that, both from ease of use and performance considerations.
Next step: installing OpenWRT on that FRITZ!Box (unless your ISP uses a weird configuration or it's unsupported).