[ale] Ouch

[Jim Kinney]

I use a full pc with a current distro patched daily for a router. Wireless
gear is set in dumb mode, i.e. pass it all to the router box. I still run a
Linux distro on the wireless gear but that is as vanilla as possible.
On Dec 23, 2015 4:58 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> The point was having access to current patches for 2+ yr old hardware. The
> only
> way I know to get that is to build the router OS myself or use a generic
> x86
> hardware router OS that is maintained by others (like pfSense/opensense).
> There
> are certainly a few Linux-based x86 router distros, just cannot recall
> their
> names now.
>
>
>
> On 12/22/2015 08:47 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> > Most Netgear routers and switches already run Linux.
> >
> > Ray Knight
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 18, 2015, at 7:03 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 12/18/2015 06:20 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> >>>
> http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/juniper-networks-us-government-security-hack/index.html
> >>
> >> Not realizing the issue for 6 years? Srsly?
> >>
> >> So we can't trust Juniper, Cisco, Netgear, TL-link, ... there are only
> a few
> >> left.  Looks like building our own network routers and switches with
> BSD or
> >> Linux will be the only way going forward.
> >>
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