Connecting, Securing and Optimising Enterprise Networks with Free Software
summary
Builds enterprise gateways on OpenWrt and liberated off‑the‑shelf hardware and deploys concrete solutions: mwan3 with dual watermark packet‑loss/latency failover to ignore flaky radio links, OpenVPN across 400+ sites, OSPF+BFD (bird) for sub‑second tunnel failover, and udp‑speeder FEC that drops 10% packet loss to ~0.18%. Adds DNS and IP blacklists, adblock/pi‑hole style filtering, Squid+ICAP+ClamAV for malware scanning, moves IDS to Suricata, central policy server for tiny edge boxes, ELK and Prometheus/Grafana for visibility, VRRP via keepalived and conntrackd for HA, abandons layer‑2 wireless mesh due to broadcast storms.
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