Besides the obvious benefits of choosing your hardware components, there is also the software side of things to consider. Picking a system like pfSense offers you the benefits of years of development ...

Open-source routers come with many benefits. These are the ones I find the most compelling.

As I've started to build up a little home lab, I've been playing around with the idea of either building or buying a PC to run pfsense on and use as my primary (edge?) router. That is, I would run my ...

Upgrading from your basic router, whether it was supplied by your ISP or not, is a huge step towards building a more resilient home network. You could get an off-the-shelf router or take the plunge ...

The NetVanta *should* be configurable as a CSU/DSU (effectively a modem). From there, you still have the options of either getting a transit routing subnet (typically a /30 or /31) or doing 1-1 NAT on ...

Over-the-counter routers are fine and work as they should, but they simply aren’t enough for some of us. Quite a few of the standard routers located around the homes of the world allow for an open ...