Running SPR on a Mini PC with WiFi 6
Intro
In the blog post we'll describe how to build and run SPR on a Mini-PC. And we'll use a WiFi 6 capable radio inside.
In the blog post we'll describe how to build and run SPR on a Mini-PC. And we'll use a WiFi 6 capable radio inside.
The SPR project started out as a series of bash scripts and configuration files. Adding new devices was a little bit error prone, as everything was done on the command line. Each device would require a new, strong password, and each device needed to be added to a zone's configuration. Next, hostapd had to be restarted to get WPA3 password reloading to work. It was hard to debug and not apparent if things failed.
What would make SPR super useful, though, would be if it was easy to use. And a user interface can do that for us.
So this week, Supernetworks pushed out a frontend for testing.
I'm happy to start releasing the Secure Programmable Router project to the world. I've been running my home WiFi with it for the past few months and I'm beyond excited to give back to the open source community. I started working on this project because I think that Linux provides a tremendous amount of agility and power for secure home networking but I felt like there was no router project out there that pulled it all together.