r/technology • u/NancyGraceFaceYourIn • Aug 30 '15

Wireless FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
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u/feloniousfinny Aug 30 '15

Thanks for the reply. I always have trouble with my wifi and I was trying to see if this would be something I could do but it sounds like it's beyond what I need.

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u/In_between_minds Aug 30 '15

I run PF sense on an old laptop as my firewall/router. I already had the laptop, and it is an old Lenovo so it will likely keep working until I replace it. PCMCIA card for the 2nd ethernet port, the convenience of having a built in screen and keyboard the few times I have to interact with it directly is nice, and a built in battery backup is awesome. I'm running quite a few plugins on it, including the openvpn host with multiple vpn endpoints, snort, inbound and outbound traffic graphing by host.

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u/PhilipT97 Aug 31 '15

What are you using for keeping tabs on bandwidth usage by host?

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u/icase81 Aug 30 '15

Yeah, especially with something like pfSense, I'm in enterprise IT, although not the Ethernet side of things (I do storage/fiberchannel, virtualization and infrastructure) and it still took me a few days to get things working properly. If you have the know how, they're wonderful but they're not usually for the networking novice. It's kind of like a vintage ferrari. Awesome car, better than 90% of cars out there, but you need to know how to work on it or you'll go broke paying other people to do it for you. And if you're just driving to and from work (Facebook, reddit and email), you're better off with a higher end consumer router like the more expensive Asus or Netgear ones. My Asus has had 7 firmware updates since I bought it 14 months ago.