Hey David,

Thanks for the hint! This is what you're talking about, right? Do those routers have enough beef to do anything in addition to the routing though? My assumption was that they would be fairly resource constrained (i.e., CPU's in the Mhz and RAM in the MB); I wouldn't be surprised if SSH didn't work because of how constrained they were. Glad to be proven wrong.

Charles

On 6/22/20 5:10 PM, Charles Hathaway wrote:

I'm looking into replacing my Verizon Fios router with one I can manage (configure DNS black hole, possibly setup a VPN connection, etc. etc.), but I'm hitting an overwhelming number of options, so I'm wondering what everyone else is doing.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I have a router that lets me run the open source dd-wrt firmware on it.  (I use the Netgear R7000P, but there's many others.)  dd-wrt is Linux based, and so probably provides most of the capabilities you mentioned.

HTH,

DR

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