[nycbug-talk] BSD Embedded Solutions for Commodity Home Routers

[Chris Clymer]

On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Peter Wright wrote:

>
>> Greets folks.
>>
>> By now, most of us have heard about projects like OpenWRT,  
>> Sveasoft and
>> other Linux
>> solutions for running embedded on commodity home routers, like the
>> infamous
>> Linksys
>> WRT54G.  I haven't heard of any equivelent BSD offerings, and the  
>> most
>> I've
>> found
>> through Web searches has been "WifiBSD", which doesn't appear to  
>> have seen
>> activity
>> since 2005.  Do there really exist no solutions in this space?  If  
>> there
>> are, anyone have
>> practical experience w/ them?
>>
>
>
> these are the two that i believe are most popular:
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/
> http://www.pfsense.org/
>
> i'm personally more familiar with m0n0wall, this would probably be  
> most
> helpful for you:
> http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/hardware-wireless.html
>
> it has captive portal etc and works great with Soekris machines.   
> pfsense
> - as the name implies - uses the OpenBSD pf packet filter.
>
> -pete
>
>
> -- 
> ~~oO00Oo~~
> Peter Wright
> pete at nomadlogic.org
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I've used both, and pfsense quite a bit.  I'm a huge fan.  Its got  
oodles more features, like solid openvpn support, CARP, and the  
capability for a lot more expansion.  And it can be fully managed  
through a web interface, so you can give it to your cisco or windows  
guys and they're comfortable.