<p dir="ltr">I use a full pc with a current distro patched daily for a router. Wireless gear is set in dumb mode, i.e. pass it all to the router box. I still run a Linux distro on the wireless gear but that is as vanilla as possible. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 23, 2015 4:58 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The point was having access to current patches for 2+ yr old hardware. The only<br>
way I know to get that is to build the router OS myself or use a generic x86<br>
hardware router OS that is maintained by others (like pfSense/opensense). There<br>
are certainly a few Linux-based x86 router distros, just cannot recall their<br>
names now.<br>
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On 12/22/2015 08:47 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:<br>
> Most Netgear routers and switches already run Linux.<br>
><br>
> Ray Knight<br>
><br>
><br>
>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 7:03 PM, DJ-Pfulio <<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On 12/18/2015 06:20 PM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/index.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/index.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> Not realizing the issue for 6 years? Srsly?<br>
>><br>
>> So we can't trust Juniper, Cisco, Netgear, TL-link, ... there are only a few<br>
>> left. Looks like building our own network routers and switches with BSD or<br>
>> Linux will be the only way going forward.<br>
>><br>
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