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So who knows much about banana pi and using that to build a router. What firmware? Are there better hardware options? Anything user-friendly enough to compare with consumer grade uis for routers? Anything else that should be being asked in this space?

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Is it possible to run BPi on any hardware? If TP-Link is banned, I'd think that many other Chinese-based manufacturers may also be on the chopping block.

Banana Pi /is/ hardware.

OpwnWRT is one distro that runs on it, apparently. Seems you know even less than I do about it.

https://www.banana-pi.org/en/product-news/557.html

Then wouldn't it potentially be as risky as TP-Link, being a Chinese company?

show me consumer router hardware not made in china.

Eero is made in Vietnam, but for purposes of Congressional bans, I assume the point is to ban products from companies based in China, even if they are still manufactured there. (In which case Linksys for example would be safe)

So buy some hardware from China, like eg banana pi, drop your Linux or bsd router distribution of choice on it.

But yes you’d need to know something about which distribution, ideally listen to someone’s actual experience.

This was the hope that started this thread. It still does work sometimes around here but surely not this time at all.

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