TNSR for small/medium environments
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Hello,
I'm evaluating TNSR for a possible use in a small/medium company environments CPEs (e.g small Atom 4core iron and a bunch of gigabit ethernet ports/VDSL) and I'm thankful to Netgate for the "personal/home" edition of TNSR that suits perfectly for test purposes. :)
I've just tested the basic routing capabilities for both IPv4 and IPv6 and I still have to drill down all the features.
At the moment my opinion is that TNSR is suited more for border AS routers or for big peering (eg. provider edge or big customer edge routers) than for small/medium customer access like GPON/VDSL/Eth 1Gb/s.
I experienced the lack of IPv6 end user features like "IPv6 Router Advertisement", IPv6 DHCP, PPPoE Clients and so on.
I'd like to know if Netgate minds to relase TNSR also for small environments in a next future or if TNSR still stay only as big end router.
Many Thanks. :)
Cheers.
Fabio.
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Yes, it is clear that the focus so far has been larger corporate and datacenter use cases. After all, using it on something as "low" as a 1 Gbit/s connection seems like a needlessly complicated setup when kernel based networking such as pfsense has no problem with those speeds on even low end hardware. However, the lack of end user IPv6 features is a bit more surprising since I would assume at least some of those would be useful in at least some corporate settings too.
Based on responses in other threads, they are at least working on PPPoE support. I have seen no statements about the IPv6 features being worked on however, so we'll just have to see. I'm sure it's somewhere on their TODO-list, but I'm not sure how far down.
