[CS-FSLUG] OT: router features

[Alan Trick]

My experience with Sonicwall is not a terribly good one. We payed a
couple thousand for the thing, as well as about 3000 in support
contracts over the last few years. Since I've been here (8 months) we
had our box mysteriously die, it had to be replaced and the replacement
is starting to go to. The thing is completely closed source and
eveything so trying to fix the thing is worse than setting up sendmail.
Also the Content Fitering System wasn't very good. A lot of false
positives and a lot of things that should have been blocked that
weren't, and, of course there wasn't much we could do about it.

I tool an old box that used to run windows 98 and stuck about 300 MB of
RAM[1]. I put IPCop[2] on it and a mod for squid & dansguardian. It
works beatifully, and squid's caching speeds stuff up noticably.

Just my anecdote. YMMV, but ipcop seems to be a pretty solid product.
There's also many other similar things out there like smoothwall[3],
m0n0wall[4], FreeNAS[5], pfSense[6], and SME server[7].

In Christ
Alan Trick

1. it probably didn't even need that except that we have a large network
and I wanted to use squid
2. http://ipcop.org/
3. http://smoothwall.org/
4. http://m0n0.ch/wall/
5. http://www.freenas.org/
6. http://www.pfsense.com/
7. http://contribs.org/


On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:58 -0400, Michael Bradley, Jr. wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>         I'm looking for a consumer router with DHCP features that
>         LinkSys and
>         D-Link do not provide.  Does anyone know of a product line
>         that can meet
>         the following requirement...
> 
> 
> Try SonicWALL:  I used their great little boxes for years (many of
> which are still running from install back in 1999), and switched to
> Linksys when setting up home and small business network just because I
> can buy that brand at Office Depot (in other words, you'll probably
> have to order SonicWALL products on-line from CDW or wherever).
>
>
> http://www.sonicwall.com/
> 
> 
> I don't know about their current offerings, but even their most basic
> firewall+router box used to allow you to do just the type of DHCP
> configuration you described in your post.
> 
> In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
> 
> Michael Bradley, Jr.
> 
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