[GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

[James Knott]

On 2023-09-07 11:33, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:06, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> 
> wrote:
>
>     A friend of mine is moving to pfSense or OPNsense, from OpenWRT.
>
> I am curious what OpenWRT didn't provide that pfSense or OPNsense do 
> provide.

Quite a lot.  pfSense (OPNsense is a fork of pfSense) is closer to the 
"real" routers from companies like Cisco.  For example, it supports 
routing protocols such as OSPF & BGP, which you are not likely to find 
in consumer grade routers.  On my own network, I have 4 Ethernet ports 
on my router, with one connected to my WAN.  One is my main LAN, which 
also has a VLAN for my guest WiFi.  I also have a test LAN and another 
connected to my Cisco router.  I run IPv4 & IPv6 and can also use 
OpenVPN for remote access.  I have a DNS resolver, which goes directly 
to the root DNS servers, an NTP server, connected to 3 stratum 1 servers 
and 3 stratum 2 servers. It provides stratum 2 to my LAN.  It can do a 
lot of other things that I haven't even bothered with.  I have a  
separate access point for WiFi.

There's really no comparison.
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