[Discuss] Wireguard and Traveling and Network Overlaps oh my!

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 11/2/24 1:14 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> GL ship a fork of OpenWRT, but the fork is their own UI on top of
> vanilla. Full LuCI is available underneath, and you can flash vanilla
> OpenWRT on almost everything.

Except last I looked a lot of hardware doesn't run a current version of 
OpenWRT.

My hope here is that because they advertise OpenWRT, maybe they keep it 
current for their hardware. Maybe.


> Other than that? I'm willing to spend some money on a complete device
> rather than spending money on a Pi or something and spending my time
> figuring out how to make it do what the polished device does.

The first time I heard the word "productization" I was horrified (as I 
was with "interoperability"), but I have since become a big fan (of 
both). The difference between a demo or a prototype and a product is 
enormous. There is great value in a finished product.

If there were e-mail server products available for sale, I might use one.


-kb, the Kent who custom compiles his own kernel so he can both boot and 
run his Pi 4 off of a pair of Linux software raid 1 disks, all because 
no such product exists, and who presumes if such a product did exist it 
would be based on something like a Pi 5 and need a fan which makes noise 
and will quit working at some inopportune point.