Setup of PC Engines APU2E4 Internet gateway & router with pfSense open source firewall

2020-12-10

Being responsible for managing all the critical ICT infrastructure at Simple Hardware, one day I went for the upgrade of Asus RT-AC68U running vanilla Asus firmware. I decided for the upgrade because the router behaved sometimes in a really strange manner. WAN interface was marked as down anyway the VPN was up an running. Which is a contradiction. Long story short, the Asus got bricked with the official firmware upgrade done in an official upgrade your firmware button press.…