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~ bsd routers |
One way to build your own bsd router without wasting electricity running a full desktop style computer box, is to buy a PC Engines board. They are economical and can be purchased used or new for $40-$160 or more depending on the configuration.
However this begs the question, why doesn't openbsd, since it's based on security, offer a consumer product that doesn't require hours (weeks) of fucking around configuring it and figuring out what hardware I have to buy and what I have to set up? I want to go to a website, buy an "Open BSD Router Solution". When this product is sent to me, I want to plug it in, and it just works. Then I can telnet into it or hook up a video screen to it and do more customizations if I want, and even use it as an openbsd miniature desktop pc if I want.
Why does a custom open bsd router have to be configured and researched for weeks, or hours? I just want a ready made solution.. a customizable consumer product.
There is a reason bsd is not being used, where it should be used: it simply takes too much futzing around to buy, setup, and research the product. It needs to be easier than this, I'm afraid to say.
The only "close enough" solution, is pfSense freebsd routers such as netgate based on PC Engines boards inside. There is also Ubiquiti routers which you can install OpenBSD on or leave freebsd on it. But, as I said, none of these are "out of the box" openbsd solutions, mostly freebsd solutions.... So why don't people use OpenBSD???? maybe because there are no simple ready made solutions and they all require futzing around for hours flashing your own custom OS onto it... No offense openbsd, but freebsd pfSense has done the actual job of marketing PF. Programming maybe much harder to do than marketing, but to get users someone has to sell a product or offer a product that uses PF to make it accessible to thousands of people.
Some people just have limited time, to sit on their computer, futzing around like a fool flashing a compactflash card, when pfSense has already done it.... and shipped it, thousands of times...
OpenBSD programmed PF but where to actually buy openbsd products? that's the issue. They work hard on security but they lack users because you cannot buy openbsd products. The day I walk in to a store or go to some website and see OpenBSD products that you can buy, similar to pfsense.. that is the day when openbsd will have more users. It's just too niche/inaccessible as it is, for people who lack time to customize their own openbsd system.
Maybe OpenBSD prefers not to have any products like offense and keep it niche customizable OS... Okay but understand, users of the system will be less in numbers, then.
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