[ale] So, who do we like for a new 4 port gigabit LAN/WAN Firewall Routers these days?

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Wed Feb 24 16:58:45 EST 2021


On Wed, February 24, 2021 4:45 pm, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>
>> Unless you're using IPv6, in which case Mikrotik has a 7-year-old (or
>> more) oustanding issue regarding routing rules.  At least with Unifi
>> there's the linux shell that lets you do most anything, but Mikrotik is
>> ... more limited.
>
> Almost every IPv6 issue that I've had was solved easily:
>  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet splash"

This presupposes you don't actually want IPv6, but I do..  Indeed, I
wanted multiple IPv6 uplinks, but the bug was that there was no way to
perform source-based routing to choose the v6 uplink path.

-derek

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