[windows2000] Re: Home router recommendations
- From: "Ray Costanzo" <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:24:40 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sorin Srbu
> I don't quite know if the cheapo dlink di-604 supports more than 20
> ports to
> be open, but it does do the rest of it you mention, incl forwarding
> logs to a
> syslog server on the internal lan.
Thanks for the links!
> Have you considered getting a linux firewall appliance, like say
> Smoothwall? I
> use one and have found it to be very flexible. I run it off of a
> P2/350-machine. Works like a champ. The install is pretty easy too
> (self-starting cd-iso). Only disadvantage might be that you won't want
> to go
> back using appliances like the di-604 after though. It has a plethora
> of 3rd
> party add-ons as well.
I am constantly torn between solutions that I can implement with very little
time and ones that require a great learning curve. The reason that I'm torn
between these two is that I LIKE the learning curve, but I get too bogged
down and then never get anything done. I'd imagine this sounds familiar to
most people though. :]
Ray at work
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