Hello everyone, atm i have a bt voyager 2091 which i connect using the usb connection. i dont know why it has usb but it does. is the firewall in all nat routers equal? or have some nat routers have better firewalls? i was knida thinking of eiether upgrading to something like the bt voyager 2110. or get something like the draytek vigor 2910. but i dont know how easy draytek are to setup? also i dont know if the firewall in it is better or not. the bt voyager 2110 i reccomended to my neigibour and i set it up for him in about 1 minute. but if some routers have better firewalls in them i would like to know which ones do aka some links please. lodore
the draynor in this link says it prevents ip spoofing and other features i havent seen in other routers for around the same price. http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2910.html lodore
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5826 http://www.netfilter.org/ http://www.nisi.ab.ca/lrp/DiskImages/Which14Me.htm http://www.nisi.ab.ca/lrp/Packages.htm http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ http://www.snort.org/ http://freeos.com/articles/3404/ http://freeos.com/articles/3405/ http://www.freeos.com/articles/3496/ yes this is the deep end of the pool but admission is free
Yes, Linux/xBSD routers destroy every closed box in features and performance, but I think they are out of the lodore´s radar For example: you could have a router that does NAT/SPI, has antispam, antivirus, IDS, content filtering, QoS, proxy and more with 100x the routing performance of a commercial unit for free. You only have to buy the hardware in case you don´t have a spare machine. Search for Coyote Linux, Freesco, Smoothwall, Clarkconnect, m0n0wall, pfSense, IPCop, Copfilter, Endian, Astaro, Squid, SpamAssassin, Dansguardian, ClamAV, HAVP, Snort.
ok then i was wondering what router makes people swear by for the home user? i want something without an install cd. just a plug in all the cables then install usb wireless dongle and type in username and password from isp and bingo you have internet! or a very quick and simple cd like the apple airport exetreme one. lodore
is there an echo in here? some of those precompiled Linux floppies\CDs are very simple and looking through a geek's closets and under benches will often reveal enough hardware to cobble one together in a few hours its sort of a spectrum, at one end near n00b level at the other a GIAC (GCIA \ GCFW) most basic routers youd find in a brick and mortor sold to the general public have the same basic features, and buying anything above that level really hurts unless snagged off ebay from an enterprise especially when someoneelse's garbage and a Linux CD will beat its pants off
I had a play with some £2000 cisco routers on my course at college i thought that draytek was quite fully featured for a home router but i dont know if its easy to install thou. lodore
Ice, you continue to surprise me I HAD NO IDEA ONE COULD BUILD A ROUTER!! I'M AN IDIOT! lol Where do you come up with all this AND links??
Take a spare PC: and follow a good tutorial: The Perfect Linux Firewall Part I -- IPCop The Perfect Linux Firewall Part II -- IPCop & Copfilter Don´t have a spare PC? Buy Mini-ITX boards http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9240/epia20dptoplbg1.th.jpg
Plus the advantage of the Linux based router is no connection limits as experienced on cheapo routers due to their limited memory and processing power so with a high speed connection its happy P2P days
Smoothwall is another great firewall. www.smoothwall.org It was perfect for my redundant p2 and p3 computers.
There was a test of dozens of cheapo NAT routeres on DSLreports and not a single (even the XP firewall survived) was penetrated, via hacking attempts (including real experts) - this is for unsolicitated attacks, where no route of entry has been gained (eg via an email with something nasty inside). http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14671194 Anyhow, one good test for a router is if it can run Emule and play games, I had a cheapo one that though it had port forwarding could not establish a connection on emule and could'nt keep Counterstrike open for long. EVERY cheapo router on the market runs Linux. Most (I have seen) have enough memory/cpu to handle the amount of connections P2P like emule or Bitorrent fine, the problematic Linksys routers for P2P is due to poor default configuration rather than a CPU/ram issue, but compared to what a dedicated PC running softwall they cannot handle the same amount of connections, but in my experience my old linksys router and my current belkin could both handle the default amount of connections for emule (set for my 4 meg cable connection). If you want, you can even mod your router http://www.DD-WRT.com (I have not done because I dont need any of the extra features offered). Newer Linksys routers have less rom (flashable) which means running the full DD-WRT impossible. Taking the PC based firewall route is a great learning experience, for sure. But I prefer the built in hub and wireless over a PC based setup, extra cost of a hub (or the 4 network cards I would need + a wireless access point to wire up my pc, laptop, server and Xbox), adds upto more than buying a router with these features built in, depends if you want/need the configurability of a PC based firewall or not.
Hello, Me bro and I have setup SmoothWall firewalls from old P3s. It was great fun doing it. Extra cost were indeed a switch and network cards. But it's worth it, because you can say you're a real geek I'm planning an article in the pipe, too. Mrk
I still use an old Netgear DG834 with an extra wireless box. I believe you can buy their newer models with wireless built in ? all I know is (1) it was easy to set up (2) various "stealth" tests say it is stealthed (3) as far as I can tell all my computers are clean.
Ive been using a basic 4 port NAT router for half a decade too But the real reasons Im going to finally build a Linux router are 1. Im about to rent to several roomates and Im setting up a gigabit NAS to the whole house with shared workstation access (art students w\ eventually a small rendering cluster possibly) 2. To impose a Snort IDS in between the LAN and the net.
pfSense with Snort rules works well on my firewall box at home. (PII350, 192MB RAM) Coyote Linux is not the same project as it started out as. The original project is more user friendly and now goes by BrazilFW. It is very modular and powerful and is much better since the new name. I would use BrazilFW if it's traffic shaping were as good as pfSense's is. BrazilFW runs well on a PI with 16MB ram.
routers hello, this is a followup of my are all routers equal. atm ive got a bt voyager 2091 i am looking at this linksys router its a pre N router so its pretty damn fast what are the linksys routers like to setup? can you just plug in the linksys router and plug it in to the the phone line using adsl cables and then connect to it using wireless? and once the connection is active just go in to the control panel and setup security? or do you have to input lots of manual settings? if you read the user guide it seems to say just connect to it using wireless then go to web interface and turn on secuirty but the quick start guide shows that it seems you need to configure it first using the webbased interface for the first pc. do you have to connect to it using a ethernet connection first? then configure it and then connect via wireless? i am just reading the manual because if i do decide to buy one i dont want to get stuck with no internet trying to set it up. i dont get the green C and D in the quick install guide grey A is a bit odd but grey B is easy just set to automatic grey C just save settings. so many settings to check well i will check the post tomorrow. any more infomation about all the steps will be useful. it looks like a nice router but its mainly manual config which could get annoying unless some people here can help me out. lodore
Re: routers Don't know anything about setting up a Linksys wireless router Lodore, but setting up a router isn't that difficult. I do have a US Robotics Maxg wireless router, of which I'm pretty satisfied. Setting it up went like a breeze. Only downside was that the first time I installed it, I had to hard reset it to get into my configuration screen. I guess that's some fault from USR, since other people experienced that too. Also have a Dlink router (not wireless) and setting that up was easy. If you need some assistance, I'm sure others will jump to the rescue. Well, jumping .... Good luck with it.
My ZyXEL x550 wifi router sits behind my pfSense box acting only as a switch and access point. It is not double NAT'd. It's a real nice setup.