I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    1 year ago

    Interesting. I have heard of it but so far I didnt bother since my router is quite versatile.

    My biggest fear is that it borks itself and I sit there at 10 pm on movie night without a network or internet to troubleshoot.

    If if I chose to use it I would need to have the current router as a fallback either running 24/7 or on a dead man switch.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve used OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and Tomato firmware on the various routers I’ve had. I don’t think I’ve ever kept the stock firmware on any router I’ve owned.

    I use pfSense at home now, but I’ve been considering switching to OPNsense. I still run OpenWrt on a portable router that I use when I’m traveling though. I won’t ever buy a router that I can’t run open source firmware on.