I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.

  • UnityDevice
    151·
    7 months ago

    TIL there are Linux people that don’t use OpenWRT. I always assumed everyone in the Linux community used it. It’s great.

    Works great with mt7621 based routers if anyone ends up looking for something compatible.

    • jaschen
      30·
      7 months ago

      I run a proxmox and run PFsense on it. They are both pretty similar but there were more tutorials for PFsense at the time.

    • mFatOPEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      It’s a joy to use on x86 hardware though. You can run as many services as you want.

      • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
        20·
        7 months ago

        IMO, I’d run pf/opnsense on an x86 box, but openwrt on a low powered device…

        Did that years ago with a pfSense firewall connected to the DSL modem, with OpenWrt APs around the house…until the hardware couldn’t support the next version of OpenWrt… (not enough RAM?)