It's been a while since I have done something like this... I honestly would just go with opensense or something from Ubiquiti these days.
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>I’ve just replaced our old home router with a tiny OpenBSD router, and I’ve been surprised and delighted by it.
The old router - a TEW813-DRU - was getting long in the tooth. Made in 2014, it was relieved of WiFi gateway duties when the pandemic demanded less glitchy videoconferencing than it could support1, and was only still around because it can route full gigabit to the WAN port2 - and perhaps more importantly, allows DHCP to be switched off so that our Pi-Hole can take over that task, along with DNS resolution. For a long time, it also routed IPv6 very happily - but that seemed to break somehow a year or so ago (I suspect config changes at our ISP), so we’ve been IPv4 luddites since then.
Why BSD? I guess I’d have to admit that I have an affinity for oddball setups - but I also wondered if it’d be simpler than a Linux solution. I love Linux - in fact, this router is running in a VM on a Linux system that’s also running Home Assistant (more about that in the future, perhaps), but over time distros have become super complicated. BSD has a reputation for being ‘simpler’.
It's been a while since I have done something like this... I honestly would just go with opensense or something from Ubiquiti these days.
Archive: https://archive.today/4hYvX
From the post:
>>I’ve just replaced our old home router with a tiny OpenBSD router, and I’ve been surprised and delighted by it.
The old router - a TEW813-DRU - was getting long in the tooth. Made in 2014, it was relieved of WiFi gateway duties when the pandemic demanded less glitchy videoconferencing than it could support1, and was only still around because it can route full gigabit to the WAN port2 - and perhaps more importantly, allows DHCP to be switched off so that our Pi-Hole can take over that task, along with DNS resolution. For a long time, it also routed IPv6 very happily - but that seemed to break somehow a year or so ago (I suspect config changes at our ISP), so we’ve been IPv4 luddites since then.
Why BSD? I guess I’d have to admit that I have an affinity for oddball setups - but I also wondered if it’d be simpler than a Linux solution. I love Linux - in fact, this router is running in a VM on a Linux system that’s also running Home Assistant (more about that in the future, perhaps), but over time distros have become super complicated. BSD has a reputation for being ‘simpler’.
