Is open source router firmware a huge upgrade from a functionality and security perspective over standard vendor-issue firmware? Migrating has always been on the todo list, but I fear just following a web how-to won’t be enough, and a certain level of networking knowledge is required.
My needs are pretty basic: main network, guest network, and a method for work device isolation aka Windows containment (perhaps a VLAN is what I’m after).
Just seen your comment and I can deffo comment as to the security aspect of it.
I bought a Xiaomi AX3600 with the knowledge that I could flash OpenWRT on it, but before doing so and using the stock firmware I came across this with apt having its hash mismatched when downloading “only over ethernet” which usually infers someone is doing something bad on your network
Is open source router firmware a huge upgrade from a functionality and security perspective over standard vendor-issue firmware? Migrating has always been on the todo list, but I fear just following a web how-to won’t be enough, and a certain level of networking knowledge is required.
My needs are pretty basic: main network, guest network, and a method for work device isolation aka Windows containment (perhaps a VLAN is what I’m after).
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Just seen your comment and I can deffo comment as to the security aspect of it.
I bought a Xiaomi AX3600 with the knowledge that I could flash OpenWRT on it, but before doing so and using the stock firmware I came across this with
apthaving its hash mismatched when downloading “only over ethernet” which usually infers someone is doing something bad on your networkhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/72022569/cannot-find-fixes-to-apt-error-hash-sum-mismatch
This guy said they replaced their whole router and should really ping them to ask.
Suffice to say that “bug” went away when I flashed OpenWRT and someone should probably look into more detail why, that was happening…