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On 5 March 2015 1:10:40 AM AEST, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>Hello, |
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>It's time to build a new router. Surely, I would just like to |
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>purchase hardware and run a minimized or embedded gentoo on it |
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>along with iptables and a few other packages. But, I got to reading |
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>and well it seems much has changed. Dansguardian is deprecated? |
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>If I add protection above layer 3, what is the best route (pun |
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>intended) |
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>to protect some winblows systems? And I need the ability to dynamically |
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>block some gaming sites (kids playing too many hours of video)..... |
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>Then I read about NFtables....... [1] |
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>And there is more. So, being a bit busy what would folks recommend |
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>for purchase (I really do not need another project at this time)? |
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>I've used routers with ebtables in the past too. |
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>I'd like to be able to download some open source linux to the router |
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>hardware if updates and pathces are not maintained by the vendor? |
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>That way I do not purchase something that is to be abandoned in |
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>a few years by the vendor. |
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>It's just a small home/office so 3x100Mb E would be fine, but GigE |
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>ports would be better. I'm flexible on the CPU/arch of the hardware, |
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>so all discussion and suggestions are welcome. In an idealized world |
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>I'd pay extra for a gentoo_derivative based router; but all I find |
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>is the WRT, devil_linux and such, nothing really cool and interesting. |
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Maybe this would meet your needs? |
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https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/ |
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There's also this link if you want to run gentoo, although you lose the networking performance of the original firmware |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3 |
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>Anyone used lilblue or pentoo as the basis for a firewalled_router? |
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>A purchase is what I really want, but some hacking, if absolutely |
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>necessary, would be ok too. Ideas? |
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>curiously, |
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>James |
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>[1] http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/ |
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