[HH] single board computers for use as a router

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Apr 25 15:28:23 EDT 2013


On 04/24/2013 11:38 PM, Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:01:22PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
>> against the kernel? (Is there a router-oriented distribution built on
>> *BSD with a web GUI?)
> The two router-oriented distributions that I am aware of are:
> pfSense: http://www.pfsense.org/
> m0n0wall: http://m0n0.ch/wall/
>
> I think pfSense originally was a fork of m0n0wall. I do not have any experience with web GUIs for their management, so I don't know if they are any good (or if they even exist).
>
> A Google search also reveals:
> BSD Router Project: http://bsdrp.net/
>
> I don't know of anybody that has used this though.
I've been using OpenWRT on a RouterStation Pro (sadly no longer being 
made) for the past few years with good success.  It has plenty of 
horsepower and I'm routinely getting 35Mbps downloads from FIOS.

-Mark



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