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Oct 25, 2026
Brian SovrynGUEST
Yep, I'm a big fan because they basically, Gleanet is a router, very popular.
Brian SovrynGUEST
They have like a fork of OpenWRT, but you can like just customize the fuck out of that thing.
Brian SovrynGUEST
I use one myself.
Brian SovrynGUEST
Huge fan.
Johannes UllrichHOST
OpenSense, PFSense have released updates.
Johannes UllrichHOST
Haven't seen OpenWRT, they are probably vulnerable as well.
Johannes UllrichHOST
But for any products like that, you have these complex web applications that these internal admin interfaces, well, they should be internal.
Johannes UllrichHOST
So that's, of course, another protection that you can apply where these appliance and such, you don't expose them to the Internet.
Deral HeilandGUEST
Yeah, there's a number of different variations.
Deral HeilandGUEST
This one is OpenWrt.
Deral HeilandGUEST
So you'll see a lot of vendors, especially ones doing like mesh Wi-Fi devices like this, that use OpenWrt.
Deral HeilandGUEST
OpenWrt is, and I haven't even mastered its entire structure.
Deral HeilandGUEST
It's a very interesting file system structure and how it's structured.
Deral HeilandGUEST
But it comes up and it typically has a squash file system, which is not writable.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
Then the implied...
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
Player there is, well, why doesn't someone show up that did some reverse engineering and did a little bit of probing and goes, I just created OpenWRT for appliances and it follows the NCSC architecture, reference architecture.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
and it's open source so people can patch it, and I provide a support service that just takes all of your end-of-life devices, take all of your current life devices, just flash this fucking firmware or this other operating system on it that I create and maintain, And you never have to deal with Fortinet.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
Instead of paying for FortiCare, like, for a fraction of the cost, I'm giving you the right architecture.
Allan JudeHOST
Yeah, and especially, you know, with the USG being end of life since 2024 by Ubiquiti, I think your concerns about them making it not work are just going to continue to accelerate.
Allan JudeHOST
If you really wanted to keep it working, it looks like OpenWrt is getting reasonably far on being able to run your own firmware on top of it instead.
Allan JudeHOST
But knowing that it's 500 MHz and, and only has a couple of gigs of RAM compared to what you're running on the, with OPNsense, there's no reason not to just go with the OPNsense and e-waste the, uh, the USG.
Joe RessingtonHOST
The OPNsense interface is also a lot easier [chuckles] to live with than OpenWrt.
Joe RessingtonHOST
If you've never tried to manage OpenWrt, there is a GUI called LuCI, and it absolutely sucks, so I, I hope you really like managing things very primitively.
Allan JudeHOST
That i3-6100 with eight gigs of RAM, that is massive overkill, isn't it?
Joe RessingtonHOST
Not overkill, but yes, you're going to be able to completely saturate your internet connection properly.
AlanHOST
Yeah, and especially with the USG being end of life since 2024 by Ubiquiti, I think your concerns about them making it not work are just going to continue to accelerate.
AlanHOST
If you really wanted to keep it working, it looks like OpenWRT is getting reasonably far on being able to run your own firmware on top of it instead.
AlanHOST
But knowing that it's 500 megahertz and only has a couple of gigs of RAM compared to what you're running on the...
AlanHOST
With OpenSense, there's no reason not to just go with the OpenSense and e-waste the USG.
Kerry ParkerHOST
You definitely want a router that you can keep up to date.
Kerry ParkerHOST
But as Dan said, if your router supports open source firmware like OpenWRT, again, check the show notes for a link, then you could reflash it with OpenWRT, gives it your own custom software.
Kerry ParkerHOST
It's kind of like installing Linux on an old Windows PC.
Kerry ParkerHOST
You could change the operating system.
Kerry ParkerHOST
And then if it does support that, then you could get security updates from OpenWRT and you can give your router some extra years of life potentially.
Kerry ParkerHOST
Now, I think Dan mentioned some tools that you might use to scan your home router for open ports.
Kerry ParkerHOST
And I'm not gonna get too technical on that, but your router basically should be a one-way data valve.
Dennis MajatoHOST
And so it's sold by a vendor, and the vendor's UI was okay, but I didn't like the fact that they were, like, three years behind in vulnerability updates, and they had no plan to fix any of those.
Dennis MajatoHOST
And I was like, "Okay, I'm just gonna run OpenWrt so I can get, you know, stuff that's patched at least regularly."
Jim PerryGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Dennis MajatoHOST
And but then I lost my UI.
Dennis MajatoHOST
I was like, "Oh, now I got this crappy thing called Luci that I need to deal with, which is way too powerful for what I need, and it's like working with something that was designed basically by an engineer." So I set out to make my own UI, my own overlay onto the OpenWrt, and I asked, um, Cloud Code to just, you know, make me a, a UI very similar to the, the one that I'm used to, and I want these, these abilities.
Dennis MajatoHOST
Like, I wanna be able to, to block, uh, new devices if I don't recognize them.
Dennis MajatoHOST
I want the ability to, uh, you know, turn off the internet if I want to, and, and things like that.
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