[ale] Ouch

[DJ-Pfulio]

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.
>>