Trump FCC starts handing out exemptions to its ban on foreign-made routers.
      • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16 days

        I think this is the primary reason. I think everyone should prepare to build your own router with upcycled older computers.

        Now that I think of it, I wonder if this is why TrueNAS closed sourced their build scripts.

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        15 days

        Do you really think the government didn’t already have a backdoor?

        It’s like people forgot about everything Snowden leaked.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16 days

    $omething tell$ me there are a few rea$on$ it could be….

    But I may be wrong.

  • YoFrodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16 days

    This and their abysmal support are two very good reasons to never use netgear again

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    16 days

    They were going to have to let someone through; the US doesn’t manufacture networking equipment…

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    16 days

    Paul Krugman pointed out that opaque approval processes are fertile ground for corruption.

  • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16 days

    So I have a TP-Link that can’t be flashed with OpnWrt/ddwrt/pfsense. What can I do to harden my router?

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
      16 days

      Honestly I just bought a small mini PC and installed Linux on it — that’s my router. I got sick of consumer trash anyway and decided to roll my own. The mini PC is overkill, you can get by very modest hardware.

      • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16 days

        I do have an old laptop, and I could install OPNSense on it, though I’m not sure if it has a second NIC card, which seems to be a requirement for running any router software on a PC. Please correct me if I’m wrong, tho.

        • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
          16 days

          Yeah that’s kind of the downside. I considered using a Raspberry Pi but it felt weird to use its Ethernet port alongside some micro USB → Ethernet adapter that probably wouldn’t hit 1 Gbps anyway.

          • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
            16 days

            Ah, so it just needs another ethernet port, if I understand you correctly? So an ethernet adapter would work?

            • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              16 days

              I used an USB Ethernet adapter on my OPNSense setup and it wasn’t stable enough. It basically required a reboot every other day. A PCI-E ethernet card solved my stability issues. Just my experience.