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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by teaearlgraycold on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:48PM (#45255922)
The solution is pfsense
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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by baby_souffle on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:55PM (#45255978)
Or openWRT.

The bsd based distributions sure are powerful, but with the power/heat budget to match.

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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by bmurphy1976 on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:32PM (#45256236)
I love me some OpenWRT but updating it has always been a risky chore.
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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by fignews on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:11PM (#45256512)
Check out attended sysupgrade
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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by nuker on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:13PM (#45256113)
Better go OPNsense
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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by arminiusreturns on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:50PM (#45255936)
The soulutions is iptables.

The solution is nftables.

The solution is bpf.

The solution is emacs-m-x-butterfly-bpf.

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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by drnick1 on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:20PM (#45256573)
Actually, pfsense kind of has a shitty reputation in the FOSS community and opnSense is preferred.

But I don't like the limitations of BSD systems in terms of hardware compatibility and performance, so I build my router using a plain Linux distro (Debian).

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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by the_biot on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:31AM (#45260414)
That's the first I've heard of pfsense having a bad reputation, can you explain? (I haven't used it, genuinely want to know)
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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by Eisenstein on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:59AM (#45261052)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by red-iron-pine on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:06PM (#45267284)
wild read.

sounds like the core of the issue was that Netgate hired a weirdo, and then botched how they handled it when the weirdo got -- go figure -- weird.

and it showed how FreeBSD does commits badly and may not have any (or few) code reviews

honestly makes me feel bad about using netgate boxes -- what else needs to be fixed?

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Re:Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link by Joe_Cool on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @10:09AM (#45262481)
They also did this: https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsen...

And WIPO had to take the domain away from them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense#OPNsense

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