[ale] So, who do we like for a new 4 port gigabit LAN/WAN Firewall Routers these days?

Ed Cashin ecashin at noserose.net
Thu Feb 25 19:49:24 EST 2021


DD-WRT and Tomato popped into my head when reading your email.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 10:24 AM Scott Plante via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> There used to be a couple of open source distros designed to be loaded
> onto commercial router hardware, but I can't place the name at the moment.
> I believe Netgear used to denote model numbers ending in "L" as
> particularly suitable for this. I tried it one time, but on a very old wifi
> router that didn't have the up-to-date radios for the wi-fi I wanted so I
> didn't keep up with it. It seemed like a well done project at the time.
>
> Is that still a thing and is anyone on the list doing that today? If so,
> does it still have a reputation for being much more secure than most of the
> stock firmwares?
>
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