Libre firewall and AP hardware?

What hardware would you recommend for AP’s and dedicated Firewalls? I really value open-source so bonus points if it works without blobs or the hardware is open or has available schematics.

Altough a bit expensive I have looked at Protectli firewalls as an option as the option to run OPNsense and coreboot is attractive.

For an AP, the Banana PI BPI-R3 (R4 if I’m patient) sounds interesting being open hardware and supporting OpenWRT. I am however curious on if it would run on LibreCMC.

loganmarchione,

Are there open source APs? I was under the impression that everything required binary firmware (even if running something like OpenWrt).

Killercat103,
@Killercat103@infosec.pub avatar

Well If it did I don’t think LibreCMC would be much of a thing. (Linux-Libre OpenWRT to sum it up). But the officially supported hardware seems to be ThinkPenguin, and old APs which isn’t a very rich selection. Unfortunate but thats why I wondered if the Banana Pi would work since firmware is closely tied to hardware.

loganmarchione,

From their FAQ. So it seems there are free 802.11n APs…

If the device has a DSL modem or an 802.11ac wifi chipset, the libreCMC project can’t support these devices. There are currently no fully free (libre) 802.11ac or DSL modem chipsets

MangoPenguin,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

A $70 box off ebay will run opnsense quite well. Put in a cheap network card for the extra ports.

For APs you can buy routers that are supported by OpenWRT and flash them, I doubt a BPI-R3 would have acceptable performance as an AP.

grimer,
@grimer@lemmy.world avatar

Oh wow, I’d never hear of Protectli until now and I’m really intrigued. They have a 4 port that looks absolutely perfect! Thanks!

Godort,

I have a Protectli box running OPNSense and it’s been great once I figured out how to get its implementation of unbound working with my Pihole.

DXS,

@Godort @Killercat103 It’s so funny (to me) how this would potentially sound so dirty to someone unfamiliar with Open Source software.

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