I’m a professional in software development, sometimes tasked with administration stuff.
At home I love my FRITZ!Box. The only thing I’m missing is DNS rewriting, but I can work around that.
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Kir@feddit.it 1 year ago
I’m a noob, but I’m running a Frirzbox router and it seems great to me. 0 problem in configuration and happened to have lots of useful features now that I’m exploring self hosting (it support woreguard VPN natively and have automatic wakeonlan feature for my server)
redballooon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 year ago
Another thing I don’t like about my fritz box is that the DHCP server for some reason assigns a single DNS server to the computers in the network
marty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yes! I asked their support several times for that, but without success :(
486@kbin.social 1 year ago
I always found the software updates of AVM - the manufacturer of those "Fritz!Box"es - to be of questionable quality. If you take a look at the source code that they have to release upon request of the GPL'ed source code they use, you'll notice that they use ancient versions of the Linux kernel, Busybox and other tools. By ancient, I mean many years old, unsupported by upstream for years. Also, they only publish those sources manually when someone asks for them, which doesn't bode well for their internal development processes. If they used CI/CD pipelines, they could easily push out updates of those sources with every new release…
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Same with a lot of manufacturers, unfortunately. TP-Link make great hardware that works well, but even their newest routers are based on a version of OpenWRT from 5+ years ago with a Linux 4.x kernel. This is not uncommon - the manufacturers usually get the base software from the SOC manufacturer and never update it.
partizan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
but what is nice, many tp-link hw can run regular openwrt, which is way better than the thing they provide…
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I don’t think their Omada routers support OpenWRT, unfortunately :(