Realiable routers

Matt

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Can anyone recomend a good simple and realiable router to use with e-smith. I am running version 6 in the UK Are they simple to setup because I have no experince of using one at all any help and advice would be very much appricated.

Thanks

Matt

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mophilly

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Re: Reliable routers

« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2004, 06:38:16 PM »

I use SME as a web server and not as a gateway. I use a MacSense XRouter which is a low cost internet "appliance". It provides NAT, port control and other stuff. It was pretty easy to set up. http://www.macsense.com/

A friend of mine has had a very good experience with SMC network routers. http://www.smc.com

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- Mark

deunan

Realiable routers

« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2004, 03:22:59 AM »

You can practically rely on most available off-the-shelf routers.. Depending on your requirements, there's a bunch to choose from. Earlier suggestions of Macsense and SMCs are quite adequate.

To further confuse the matter

, let me suggest another.. Try Smoothwall linux distro, the GPL version. You need a PC with at least 2 NICs to go with it. Although you could probably survive with a 486 or Pentium Classics, my recommendation is, to use Smoothwall with a used/old Pentium II PC (or any ATX types). They tend to be more reliable than Baby AT powered! I have an old PII-233 HP running smoothwall for my firewall for well almost two years, and still running!

You can also consider M0n0wall or a bunch others.

Regards

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ryan

Realiable routers

« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2004, 01:14:37 AM »

I use IPCop.org with SME..IPcop is very easy to install.

ryan

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Wooderson

Realiable routers

« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2004, 05:50:00 PM »

I've used both Smoothwall and IPcop... both work quite well and are VERY easy to get set up.

Another one to look at is Astaro Security Linux.
http://www.astaro.com/
It has a lot of options to configure, will work as a VPN endpoint with either PPTP or IPSEC "out of the box"... etc...

Last I knew if you were a home user, you could get a license for 10 machines free of charge.

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