Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Tue Sep 22 13:57:41 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>wrote:

> On 09/22/2009 08:53 AM, Hewitt_Tech wrote:
> > Bottom line - if it's commercial use in any way buy something better
> > (Sonicwall, Cisco, Netscreen...) and stay well clear of Linksys.
>
> Since we're on this list, it's worth noting that your options aren't
> only cheap proprietary gear and expensive proprietary gear. I regularly
> sell clients quality embedded open hardware for firewalls/routers in the
> sub-$500 range using open-source platforms.  For mission-critical stuff
> I do two with a heartbeat/failover between them.
>
>
I worked at a place that used OpenBSD for firewalls.

They had a paranoid setup:

cisco router -> Firewall -> DMZ -> Firewall

In the DMZ, they had: SSH gateway, mail server, DNS server

Inside, they had another mail server running different software, another DNS
server running different software, another SSH gateway, a netscreen VPN for
site to site.

The router and netscreen had all access disabled except via serial port.  No
logins, no status, just route packets.

Their web servers ran only httpd and sshd.  Static HTML only.
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