Building a BSD home router (pt. 7): Advanced OPNsense installation

Previous parts of this series: Part 1 (discussing why you want to build your own router and how to assemble the APU2), Part 2 (some Unix history explanation of what a serial console is), Part 3 (demonstrating serial access to the APU and covering firmware update), Part 4 (installing pfSense), Part 5 (installing OPNsense instead) …

Building a BSD home router (pt. 6): pfSense vs. OPNsense

Part 1 of this article series was about why you want to build your own router, and how to assemble the APU2 that I chose as the hardware to build it from. Part 2 gave some Unix history and explained what a serial console is. Part 3 demonstrated serial access to the APU and showed …

Building a BSD home router (pt. 5): Installing OPNsense

Part 1 of this article series was about why you want to build your own router, and how to assemble the APU2 that I chose as the hardware to build this on. Part 2 gave some Unix history and explained what a serial console is. Part 3 demonstrated serial access to the APU and showed …

Building a BSD home router (pt. 4): Installing pfSense

Part 1 of this article series was about why you want to build your own router, and how to assemble the APU2 that I chose as the hardware to build this on. Part 2 gave some Unix history and explained what a serial console is. Part 3 demonstrated serial access to the APU and showed …

Building a BSD home router (pt. 3): Serial access and flashing the firmware

Part 1 of this article series was about why you want to build your own router, and how to assemble the APU2 that I chose as the hardware to build this on. Part 2 gave some Unix history and explained what a serial console is. In this post we will prepare a USB memstick to …

Building a BSD home router (pt. 2): The serial console (excursion)

The previous post touched on the topic of why you might want to build your own router, discussed some hardware considerations and showed how to assemble an APU2 bundle. Now that the box is ready for use, we have to do something with it - but there's a small problem. People who want to play …