Build-A-Router

This project is about building a new innovative CPE-router for prosumers. After the decline of AVM Fritz!Box as the goto prosumer device and their stagnation in development of new features it is time for a new product.

Features

• RAM: 4 GB
• NAND: 256GB
• Kernel: Mainline, always the most recent, secure and feature richest kernel directly build from mainline
• Alpine Linux as base OS that is "designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency"
• IPv6 first design for a modern network
• IPv6-only on internal networks
• Jool for NAT64 and NAT46 (port forwardings)
• Dualstack on public interface
• Site2Site-VPN
• Client2Site-VPN (road warrior VPN)
• Privacy VPN
• IDS + IPS built-in
• Podman for user extendability with custom apps.
• Root access optional (will trigger a flag in UI)
• Unbound recursive DNS resolver
• Zeroconf
• Squid3 (transparent) proxy
• Multi WAN compatible
• Modular design
• Low power consumption
• Slim form factor (Mini-ITX, ...)
• Multi Site deployment (share configuration over Site2Site VPN link)
• SFP+ Slots (or bundled media converters) for VDSL, DOCSIS, Fiber, ...
• PoE In/Out
• 2.5GBASE-T or 5GBASE-T
• >4 Ethernet Ports
• TPM for secure and transparent system encryption
• RTC (maybe integrated into GPS/5G module)

Architecture