Plug Meeting - February - Home networking woes.

cod3poet · February 03, 2019, 02:01:13 PM

Outbreak is over and we are on for Monday

To continue the home networking series we'll be showing how a raspberry pi is a terrible choice for a router, and using commodity hardware with an actual network adapter is the key to a secure and stable network. I will be demoing OPNSense rather than PFSense and highlighting the differences between both, as well as showing off what a raspberry pi CAN be used for to help secure your network.

Date: Monday, Feburary 4th 2019 - 7 PM
Location: Applewood Manor
1500 Lansdowne Street West, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Jason · February 03, 2019, 03:04:44 PM

Awesome, Brian! Looking forward to it.

Glen-VE3LIZ · February 03, 2019, 08:02:00 PM

Good evening. Just saw the notice for the meeting on Monday and we will be traveling to Peterborough to attend. Weather looks fairly good also. Thanks.
Glen, VE3LIZ.

cod3poet · February 03, 2019, 08:43:55 PM

The roads should hopefully clear up it's been pretty dicey and the sidewalks are still treacherous. I a few hours mid day until 4pm running the roads and survived however.

buster · February 04, 2019, 01:57:39 PM

I was talking to Trevor in Metro about his experiences in the north, and his present work - fascinating.

He may be joining us, which would be great.

Glen-VE3LIZ · February 04, 2019, 07:20:25 PM

We are here, nor presenter.

Jason · February 05, 2019, 01:04:45 AM

Thanks for an interesting and useful presentation, Brian!

I don't know that I need all the cabilities that OPNsense has but it's cool to know the option is there. I think if I was running a local media server or other features than just using it as a router, I'd probably go for it. I'm definitely going to try out as a VM to find out the extent of its capabilities.