Building a BSD home router (pt. 8): ZFS and jails

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. 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. 1): Hardware (PC Engines APU2)

Pretty much everybody in the western world has internet access at home these days. It's not a big deal: You conduct a contract with some ISP. They send you a modem/router combo box that you plug in, do some simple setup and you're done. Those boxes are pretty much ubiquitous pieces of hardware, silently doing …