Open-source routers come with many benefits. These are the ones I find the most compelling.

As I've started to build up a little home lab, I've been playing around with the idea of either building or buying a PC to run pfsense on and use as my primary (edge?) router. That is, I would run my ...

Over-the-counter routers are fine and work as they should, but they simply aren’t enough for some of us. Quite a few of the standard routers located around the homes of the world allow for an open ...

Will look into fwbuilder but so far was planning to go with a server distro (no GUI) and was hoping to get by using iptables directly for NAT. With regards to bufferbloat, I had run the DSL reports ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.

A new mini PC equipped with 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports has been recently launched powered by an Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor and offering support for open source router, VPN, and firewall software.