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What hardware would you recommend for AP's and dedicated Firewalls? I really value open-source so bonus points if it works without blobs or the hardware is open or has available schematics.

Altough a bit expensive I have looked at Protectli firewalls as an option as the option to run OPNsense and coreboot is attractive.

For an AP, the Banana PI BPI-R3 (R4 if I'm patient) sounds interesting being open hardware and supporting OpenWRT. I am however curious on if it would run on LibreCMC.

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[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A $70 box off ebay will run opnsense quite well. Put in a cheap network card for the extra ports.

For APs you can buy routers that are supported by OpenWRT and flash them, I doubt a BPI-R3 would have acceptable performance as an AP.

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