Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:55:32 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> Celejar wrote: 
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:14:59 -0400
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Friday 25 October 2019 09:13:31 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:56:19AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > > > Basically, the home network uses 192.168.0.0/24, as do other LANS I
> > > > > connect to.
> > > >
> > > > So change your home network.
> > > 
> > > 192.168.0.## and 192.168.1.## are the last two blocks I would ever use 
> > > for a home network. The potential for a miss-behaving router messing 
> > > with your security is mind boggling.  Fortunately for better endowed 
> > > routers that can be reflashed, there is dd-wrt.  No NSA back doors, 
> > > nothing gets thru it you didn't allow.  It has stood guard over my 
> > > machines for around 20 years now.
> > 
> > Yes, I use OpenWrt.
> 
> I use a much better supported system called Debian. It did
> require me to spend a bit more on the firewall hardware, but on
> the other hand it is tremendously speedy and configurable.

Debian is certainly better supported, and better in many ways, but does
it run on something like my TP-Link Archer AC2600? I suppose you're
advocating getting separate router / firewall, wireless AP, and maybe
switch boxes, but as you note, that will cost substantially more and
probably draw substantially more power (also costing more).
"Tremendously speedy" is hardly relevant if my unit is fast enough that
it isn't the bottleneck on my network, and OpenWrt has no lack of
configurability.

Celejar