Re: [PLUG] Router Projects and VPNs

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Soren Harward <stharward@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I just looked back in this thread and noticed that you've
> already got a Buffalo router.  OpenWrt has had good support for
> Buffalo routers for a long time, and they offer easily flashable
> images with regular updates:

Well, all I can say is I have no idea why I put this off.

It took me all of about two minutes to flash a sysupgrade image from
ddwrt over ssh, a few minutes to set it up for switch+wlan, and just a
few minutes more to bridge my FIOS router and use openwrt as my
gateway.  i configured it to register dynamic DNS with namecheap
easily enough and have all my firewall rules configured.

I'll look into things like VPN another day, but I have to say that
installing modules on openwrt is an absolute breeze.

You said that firmware updates are typically easy to do, and don't
require reconfiguration?

--
Rich
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