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Setting up an OpenBSD router is almost trivial - it's all there in the base system. dhcpd, unbound, net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 and a forwarding rule in pf.conf an
by evh 4y ago
Setting up an OpenBSD router is almost trivial - it's all there in the base system. dhcpd, unbound, net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 and a forwarding rule in pf.conf and you're good to go. Then the tinkering starts, of course (even wireguard's available in base). Do run a few benchmarks - my APU2 can't really live up to gbit IP throughput (iperf3 speeds were about 500 Mbps, no performance tuning ). Luckily the veb(4) software switching does reach 1 Gbps locally and my uplink is only 100/100.
Would recommend it, very nice to work with.
- Shared404 4y agoWhat I'm more worried about is hardware support, specifically for a PCI Wifi board I pulled from recycling a while ago. It'll probably trivial to find out, even if just by installing the OS and trying fw_update. I need to just sit down and do it, but I have a working setup right now and can't quite get the motivation to at the moment.
- evh 4y agoYeah wlan is by far the weakest point of OpenBSD networking - especially as an AP. Slipped my mind completely actually. The way most do it is to have separate APs. Still, you can check https://man.openbsd.org/pci.4#Wireless_network_interfaces https://man.openbsd.org/pci.4#Wireless_network_interfaces to get a general idea. Unfortunately only a few support host AP mode (last I checked).