[HN Gopher] Linux-Router
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       Linux-Router
        
       Author : marcodiego
       Score  : 76 points
       Date   : 2021-09-13 15:32 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | jrm4 wrote:
       | Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the
       | tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've
       | had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load
       | balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite
       | sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand.
       | 
       | I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do
       | most of the lifting, and I'm relatively proficient in Linux et
       | al, it's my daily driver -- but I just ended up buying a load
       | balancing router and using multiple routers etc.
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       | It's frustrating _knowing_ that I don 't need it, but the family
       | needed remote-work-class internet faster than I could learn how
       | to do it my way.
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       | Hopefully well see more stuff like this because, unless I missed
       | something big, this space is _dismal_
        
       | dsr_ wrote:
       | This sort of thing is good in direct proportion to the quality of
       | the documentation and support. If you don't know what you're
       | doing, the fact that it works feels overwhelmingly important, but
       | conceals the fundamental insecurity. If you do know what you're
       | doing, do you agree with all the policy decisions being made
       | here?
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       | Good documentation and community can bring you out of darkness.
       | I'm not sure this is doing that job as well as OpenWRT or a good
       | distro's user mailing list.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | marcodiego wrote:
       | I occasionally use it to turn my machine into a repeater. Would
       | be nice to have a GUI.
        
       | brian_herman wrote:
       | Oh wow I could of used this a couple months ago. I tried doing
       | this myself. But, instead bought a ASUS router maybe when my asus
       | router decides to crap out I will replace it with this defintely
       | bookmarking and staring.
        
       | ncrmro wrote:
       | Trying to figure out how to make a pi or my Linux workstation an
       | access point bridged to my network has been tedious
        
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