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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 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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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/ |