since 2 years they didn't fix bugs that block the router from the internet
Based on our record, MikroTik RouterOS should be more popular than Shorewall. It has been mentiond 23 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
All mentioned items have side-channel borked firewall and route rules in the past. Some bugs intermittently silently block local daemon instances from (re)loading like magic (some bugs only happen when the system is brought up). If your daily tasks include something less borked, than consider yourself very lucky you live without systemd. If I recall, ufw was intended for simple workstation rule sets. Personally,... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
I've been using Shorewall for the last decade or so on everything from custom OpenWRT firewall/gateway solutions to servers running Debian or Ubuntu. It's great software that makes managing iptables/netfilter a breeze. Alas after many years, Mr. Eastep has retired and it doesn't appear the project is maintained by a new person or team. Source: about 1 year ago
Shorewall (https://shorewall.org/) can do the job easily. Source: over 1 year ago
Despite administrating Linux machines since 1994, I have never really looked closely at iptables because I was using shorewall and the briefly firehol. Source: over 1 year ago
You should just use https://shorewall.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago
Anyone using Mikrotik these days? Been Mikro-curious for awhile and always see them thrown around as a Unifi alternative. Yet to hear of any firsthand implementations though. [0] https://mikrotik.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I keep reading it as the networking hardware company Mikrotik. Source: about 1 year ago
The "Buy" link at the top of mikrotik.com - this is how most hardware vendors with a distribution network have their site set up. Source: over 1 year ago
Or Mikrotik from Latvia, for switching/routing: Https://mikrotik.com/. Source: over 1 year ago
There is way to get default to do whatewer you want (including preseted VLAN on some port): Get some config, which you'd like to use as default Login to mikrotik.com Use branding section to get packet, which can be installed on any RoS to change default config and some other things. Source: over 1 year ago
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