I don't fear rebooting my router because it takes less than 30 seconds to do a complete cycle; TCP sessions can withstand that.
It probably helps that it runs Debian stable, too, so security updates are frequent and regular.
It probably helps that it runs Debian stable, too, so security updates are frequent and regular.
But connection tracking tables for NAT may not. Plus the ISP might assign a new IP to your CPE on ppp auth.
I'm a PFsense user currently and am always looking for ways to tinkering with my networks.
They also have recently made it a PITA to use PFSense with IPTV, as UDP Multicast forwarding has been deprecated w/o warning. Like everything with PFSense, it just disappeared one update without so much as a warning :P
I have a friend who uses Debian as his core router, its not bad. I've gone to OpenWRT since its got the fit and finish, plus it will boot and be debugable no matter what happens.
You should be able to tune it from there to get a reboot under 30 seconds.
Ubiquiti did their own fork of vyatta for their edgeos offering, I believe.