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mFattoLinux@lemmy.mlEnglish·7 months ago

As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

mFattoLinux@lemmy.mlEnglish·7 months ago

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.

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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?)