What is Reddit's opinion of The Book of PF: A No-nonsense Guide to the Openbsd Firewall?

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Thinking outside the box:

>Please help. The original software is unusable for what I need it to.

You wrote:

http://blog.hsp.dk/d-link-dir-810l-login-bypass/

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>It’s not the prettiest of routers, but it only costs 332 DKK with overnight shipping, which is $50 exactly by the current rate. It is advertised as an “AC router”, which should allow extremely high WiFi speeds, but I’m honestly pleased with it just having 2.4GHz/5GHz dualband “N” networks.

It is performing great right now, and I like all the toggles and switches inside the control panel. BUT I WANTED MORE.

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But of course!

So: you paid 332DKK for a router with weak firmware, 10/100 ethernet ports, (not gigabyte), and pretty weak open source firmware support (because the of the ralink chip in it--there's more available for broadcom/intel, etc.)--may I recommend you cut your losses here? Return the 810L for a 332DKK refund, and get something else?

One possibility: repurposing an old PC, and using MonoWall or Gargoyle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle_(router_firmware)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M0n0wall

Or OpenBSD

http://www.openbsd.org/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-PF-No-Nonsense-Firewall/dp/159327274X

PfSense?

https://www.pfsense.org/

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>Please help. The original software is unusable for what I need it to.

Good Sir: I would recommend that if this hardware, the 810L, does not run the software you need, that you get different hardware.

Hope this helps!