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<h2 id="the-problem">The problem</h2>
<p>My aging router has been running <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt">OpenWrt</a> for years and for the most part has been quite reliable. OpenWrt is an open-source project used on embedded devices to route network traffic. It supports many different configurations and there exists a <a href="https://openwrt.org/packages/index/start">large index of packages</a>. Ever since I&rsquo;ve connected some standalone wireless access points, I&rsquo;ve had less of a need for an off-the-shelf all-in-one wireless router combo. I&rsquo;ve also recently been experiencing instability with my router (likely the result of a combination of setting tweaking and firmware updating). OpenWrt has served me well, but it is time to move on!</p>
<p>My aging router has been running <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt">OpenWrt</a> for years and for the most part has been quite reliable. OpenWrt is an open-source project used on embedded devices to route network traffic. It supports many different configurations and there exists a <a href="https://openwrt.org/packages/index/start">large index of packages</a>. Ever since I&rsquo;ve connected some standalone wireless access points, I&rsquo;ve had less of a need for an off-the-shelf all-in-one wireless router combo. I&rsquo;ve also recently been experiencing instability with my router (likely the result of a combination of configuration tweaking and firmware updating). OpenWrt has served me well, but it is time to move on!</p>
<h2 id="pfsense">pfSense</h2>
<p>I figured this would be a good opportunity to try <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense">pfSense</a>. I&rsquo;ve heard nothing but positive things about pfSense and the fact it&rsquo;s been around since 2004, based on FreeBSD, and written in PHP gave me the impression that it would be relatively stable (and I&rsquo;d expect nothing less because it has an important job to do!). pfSense can be run on many different machines, and there are even some <a href="https://www.netgate.com/appliances">officially supported appliances</a>. Since I already have a machine running Proxmox, why not just run it in a VM? It&rsquo;d allow for automatic snapshotting of the machine. There is a good <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdoBQNI_Ab8">video</a> on this by Techno Tim. Tim has a lot of good videos, and this one is about virtualizing pfSense.</p>
<h2 id="router-on-a-stick">Router on a stick</h2>