GL.iNet are budget routers compared to Ubiquiti. Firewall rules are pretty universal among routers of any class. Drop unsolicited packets (unless YOU enable port forwarding).
I think the cost to features ratio of GL routers is quite good. Plus, having the same UX for both home and travel is a big plus for me.
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Things may have changed in the years since but UBNT used to run a fork of the F/OSS VyOS router-OS which itself is built on the Debian Linux distro. They called it 'EdgeOS'.
AFAIK: Basically "statefull inspection" means that the (TPC) session is either initiated or does exist, when a subsequent packet is passing. I.O.W. the answer path must be the same as the initial request path. Sometimes in a network both paths differ, and this does not pass with statefull inspection active.
What's TPC? I am unfamiliar with those initials in this context.
Sorry typing mistake. Its TCP.
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Ah, okay. I thought it might be related to some new fangled 'SDN'-related something or other for 'the cloud' (read: some one else's computer(s)).