[nycbug-talk] soho router options (soekris?)

[Jerry B. Altzman]

On 1/18/2005 11:54 AM, Isaac Levy wrote:
> So I've got a hardware question some folks here may find fun.

[...story of woe...]

Data points:

- We use a m0n0wall here at my office for various and sundry things, and 
it's a bit squirrelly to set up, but it is featureful and does a lot of 
weirdo stuff that we need.

- I just bought and installed an Asante' firewall/router COTS box for my 
in-laws. The hardest part of dealing with that box was routing the power 
cable to their extension cord. I plugged it in, and it worked. Just like 
that. The web interface is >eh< but unless you're doing a lot of custom 
stuff (port redirects, etc.) something like this is fine.

- At home I run an oldskool Netgear FP114. It, too, "Just Works". Before 
I moved in November, it had been up since the power came back on in 
August 2003. (15 months, is that right?).

> Biggest requirement: the router must simply run, with as little 
> ike-interaction as possible, as not to disrupt my other regular work.

Given this, and the cost (these firewall gizmos are under $50 now) 
unless you really just want the 1337-factor of building your own, just buy.

> .ike

//jbaltz
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