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

[Charles Sprickman]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Chris Clymer wrote:

> 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
>> www.nomadlogic.org/~pete
>> 310.869.9459
>
> 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.
>

Ditto here, I started using it at home and then put it at two client sites 
as well.  Very nice setup.  Getting an IPSEC VPN going from one client's 
home to office was easier than falling off a log.

C