I finally spent some time playing with my router - I've got a Linksys WRT1900ACS, which has a lot more horsepower than I need for a couple of computers.

Install an external drive, partition it with an app directory, swap, and
jffs, use the rest as storage.

I downloaded Entware-NG, a package layer that lets you run traditional linux packages on your router. The first step was to put nginx on and create
reverse proxy rules to route HTTP traffic to my BBS. Later on, I'm going to set up subdomains for my home lan devices and use nginx to proxy them
through a single 80/443 rule.

Next is to get Letsencrypt working on the router so I can get a certificate for it and have it proxy SSL as well as HTTP traffic.

The ulterior motive is to use all of the crap I've accumulated and have
laying around - spare router, 2TB drive left over from my old computer, a drive casing that I schucked a couple of years back, and so on.

The next step is to get Cat6 run between my bedroom (where the cable modem
is) and my office, and finally get rid of my Powerline adapters.


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Hello Kurt,

Thursday August 19 2021 11:42, you wrote to All:

The ulterior motive is to use all of the crap I've accumulated and
have laying around - spare router, 2TB drive left over from my old computer, a drive casing that I schucked a couple of years back, and
so on.

Planning on getting up later today and setting up a pfSense box and upgrading my LAN to gigabit speeds.

The next step is to get Cat6 run between my bedroom (where the cable
modem is) and my office, and finally get rid of my Powerline adapters.

For some strange reason, the sole CATV cable in my apartment is in my bedroom when I have to move my computers, cable modem, et cetera into the other side of my living room (I hate having any electronics in my bedroom). I have to come up with about 30' of coax cable to do so and run it along the floor out of the way.

Silly stuff.

-- Sean

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