Anyone on broadband using a good robust router/firewall?
I recently (couple of months) found this one: m0n0wall
It's a full featured distro that can run on many net appliances (soerkis and WRAP) as well as just about any PC (from either HD/CF or CD-ROM and floppy).
It's very solid. after playing with it awhile, I ditched my linksys router and am now using this.
It's running on an old p2-400 with 3 nics and 128MB of ram - runs great.
I'm also using it at one of the companies I work for, where it is running on a Sun v60x (sun intel system).
The cool features:
Traffic Shaping (assign priorities to various types of traffic - IE, P2P now is low priority so it doesn't affect anything else).
Comprehensive VPN support (supports PPTP, IPSEC , and OpenVPN). I am using both PPTP and IPSEC tunnels. Awesome stuff.
Excellent Firewall - it's a BSD based distro, so it's using the standard iptables type firewall that many commercial firewall boxes use (many of them run a BSD based os).
It also has just about any other feature I've ever seen on a linksys/dlink router, like DynDNS support, DHCP, DNS, etc.
It has a nifty bandwidth usage graph, and supports snmp so that you can use something like MRTG to give you nice graphs on utilization, etc.
I'm currentyl using the 1.2 beta 2 - its rock solid.
Try it out - you will like it, i think, and you can always use the CD/floppy combo to test it out on an old machine with almost no work.
I recently (couple of months) found this one: m0n0wall
It's a full featured distro that can run on many net appliances (soerkis and WRAP) as well as just about any PC (from either HD/CF or CD-ROM and floppy).
It's very solid. after playing with it awhile, I ditched my linksys router and am now using this.
It's running on an old p2-400 with 3 nics and 128MB of ram - runs great.
I'm also using it at one of the companies I work for, where it is running on a Sun v60x (sun intel system).
The cool features:
Traffic Shaping (assign priorities to various types of traffic - IE, P2P now is low priority so it doesn't affect anything else).
Comprehensive VPN support (supports PPTP, IPSEC , and OpenVPN). I am using both PPTP and IPSEC tunnels. Awesome stuff.
Excellent Firewall - it's a BSD based distro, so it's using the standard iptables type firewall that many commercial firewall boxes use (many of them run a BSD based os).
It also has just about any other feature I've ever seen on a linksys/dlink router, like DynDNS support, DHCP, DNS, etc.
It has a nifty bandwidth usage graph, and supports snmp so that you can use something like MRTG to give you nice graphs on utilization, etc.
I'm currentyl using the 1.2 beta 2 - its rock solid.
Try it out - you will like it, i think, and you can always use the CD/floppy combo to test it out on an old machine with almost no work.
