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 AstLinux supports many different x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) hardware devices, so when a remote VPN endpoint is desired in your AstLinux constellation it makes sense to first consider yet another AstLinux solution.  Quite often AstLinux is the best solution ... familiarity, full-system firmware upgrades, and if true, you can quit reading any further.
-As an alternative for a remote VPN endpoint, the Ubiquiti Networks [[https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x/|EdgeRouter-X]] occupies a special sweet-spot of quality hardware and low price  (currently, January 2019). While similarly priced to a [[https://www.raspberrypi.org/|Raspberry Pi]] complete system, the EdgeRouter-X has quality hardware designed for networking, including a built-in 5-port Gbit ethernet switch.  Additionally, the EdgeRouter-X is less-than-half the cost of the **least** expensive multi-NIC x86 system required by AstLinux.
+As an alternative for a remote VPN endpoint, the Ubiquiti Networks [[https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x/|EdgeRouter-X]] occupies a special sweet-spot of quality hardware and low price  (currently, January 2019). While similarly priced to a [[https://www.raspberrypi.org/|Raspberry Pi]] complete system, the EdgeRouter-X has quality hardware designed for networking, including a built-in 5-port Gbit ethernet switch.  Additionally, the EdgeRouter-X is less-than-half the cost of the **least** expensive multi-NIC x86 system required to run AstLinux.
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 Since the EdgeRouter-X is not x86 hardware, AstLinux will not run on it.  The default EdgeRouter-X firmware is EdgeOS, documentation found here: [[https://www.ubnt.com/downloads/guides/edgemax/EdgeOS_UG.pdf|EdgeOS User Guide]].  The WireGuard VPN is currently available for EdgeOS as a third-party ''.deb'' package found here: [[https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard|vyatta-wireguard]].
-Alternatively, the [[https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_x_er-x_ka|OpenWrt Project]] offers firmware specifically built for the EdgeRouter-X with impressive performance.  The current standard ''18.06.1'' release performs NAT routing at near 1 Gbps line speed, and WireGuard VPN performance at around 180 Mbps.  Quite impressive for a 880 MHz CPU.
+Alternatively, the [[https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/ubiquiti_edgerouter_x_er-x_ka|OpenWrt Project]] offers firmware specifically built for the EdgeRouter-X with impressive performance.  The current standard ''18.06.1'' release performs NAT routing at near 1 Gbps line speed, and WireGuard VPN performance at around 180 Mbps.  Quite reasonable for a 880 MHz CPU.
 It could be said that the EdgeRouter-X with OpenWrt and the WireGuard VPN in the kernel is an ideal solution for a remote VPN endpoint.  The rest of this documentation describes how to install the current release of OpenWrt ''18.06.1'' on a Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter-X (ER-X).