[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [NTLUG:Discuss]"hardware" Firewall Advice?

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 10:18, Daphne and Steve Martindell wrote:
> What I'm looking for is a "hardware" DSL/Cable-modem Firewall wireless 
> and wired router, that can also do printer sharing and supports VPN 
> tunneling. I looked at several this weekend: Linksys, Dlink, ...
> at Microcenter and Fry's. 
> I didn't get a good feeling if any of these would setup easily 
> with Linux,and the drivers for Linux are available.
> 
> does anyone know which hardware router does all this and works
> well with Linux?

The LinkSys and DLink neither make direct connection to the machines
behind with any thing special.  As in they are hubs on the inside with
web based interfaces and no driver are needed.  It is just an ethernet
connection (if you can get on any network, you can work with these
devices).  The both work fine.  I like the Linksys and it seems to have
had less issues reported.  I use one at home and have had great
success.  I know several people that have the DLink and they like it as
well.  Setup on both is extremely easy and I have used and set them up
with both DSL and Cable modems.  With DSL using the PPOE works fine as
well.

> 
>          -steve
>           Suse 2.4.4-4GB    
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Dan wrote:
> > 
> > the firewall I use for my lan and home is ipcop www.ipcop.com
> > it's a very nice gpl Linux based firewall with all kinds of
> > nice features.
> > also www.smoothwall.org (ipcop is based on smoothwall) just came out with
> > version 2
> > 
> > I have used both on some old hardware and have been very pleased.
> > and they're free and easy to install typically less than 30 min to install.
> > I run mine headless and keybordless and installed dansguardian
> > (http://dansguardian.org/)
> > for a porn filter here at work.
> > 
> > imho
> > Dan
> 
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