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Tyler of tjll.net writes in his blog:
After my Asus N66U kicked the bucket, I considered a few options: another all-in-one router, upgrade to something like an EdgeRouter, or brew something custom. When I read the Ars Technica article espousing the virtues of building your own router, that pretty much settled it: DIY it is.
I've got somewhat of a psychological complex when it comes to rolling my own over-engineered solutions, but I did set some general goals: the end result should be cheap, low-power, well-supported by Linux, and extensible. Incidentally, ARM boards fit many of these requirements, and some like the Raspberry Pi have stirred up so much community activity that there's great support for the ARM platform, even though it may feel foreign from x86.
I've managed to cobble together a device that is not only dirt cheap for what it does, but is extremely capable in its own right. If you have any interest in building your own home router, I'll demonstrate here that doing so is not only feasible, but relatively easy to do and offers a huge amount of utility - from traffic shaping, to netflow monitoring, to dynamic DNS.
I built it using the espressobin, Arch Linux Arm, and Shorewall.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Revek on Friday April 13 2018, @01:30PM (1 child)
I've already decided when my router dies again that I'm going to buy a unifi ap and use pfsense on a small fanless pc. You can't beat Ubiquiti for the price.
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(Score: 2) by aclarke on Friday April 13 2018, @07:29PM
I'm new to the brand, having just replaced a dead (but aged) Airport Extreme with a hEX router and cAP AC wifi access point. Total cost: CAD206.27 all in. I started my search, expecting to buy Ubiquiti but ended up with Mikrotik. It's not as user-friendly, but seems a lot more powerful, and costs a lot less.