DSL firewall/router solutions?

Kurth Bemis kurth at usaexpress.net
Mon Jul 14 12:46:57 EDT 2003


Stay away from Linksys.  We have about 50 8 port firewall/gateway poxed 
deployed.  They seem to "go dumb" and need a reboot once an a while, 
even with the new firmware, also throughput isn't that good on them, 
compared to the netgear routers that we have deployed...

Maybe now that cisco owns them they'll start making decent products again.

~kurth

Travis Roy wrote:

>>However, they charge more than I'm willing to pay for a static IP.
>>So, I'm wondering about which DSL firewall boxes are decent, and can
>>they handle dynamic IP addresses?  Or, is it just easier to use
>>iptables/netfilter on my system at home and make that the router/
>>firewall for my network?
> 
> 
> Any decent "broadband router" can deal with DHCP. The only thing you usually
> have to worry about is when ISPs (like MediaOne back in the day) would
> renumber and kill your DHCP lease in the middle of a lease, but a reboot of
> the system/router would fix that. I've used linksys ones with great results,
> I have some friends using Netgear ones that also work good.
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