[windows2000] Re: Home router recommendations
- From: "Timothy R. Mangan" <tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:10:46 -0400
After ignoring this series of posts I ended up in the market for a new home
firewall/router myself. Seemed like the old one was dying (turned out to be
the ISP after all). The old one was a wired router, and I had another
wireless router in place (acting more as a wireless bridge), but it had
issues with wireless dropouts. So I decided to kill 2 birds with one stone.
Being cheap with my own money, I went to the going out of business sale at
the local CompUSA. I decided to try to go low end and have been
disappointed.
The TrendNet router it seems doesn't like VMWare or MS Virtual Server
machines. Ultimately, I had to disable the DHCP server function because it
doesn't like two IP addresses from the same MAC. The old Netgear had no
issue with this. Once I found out the ISP had an issue, I put the Netgear
back on the LAN and disabled the DHCP server function of the TrendNet and
my duplicate IP address problems went away. I decided to leave the TrendNet
as the firewall as it is far more manageable than the 6 year old Netgear
(for example, for some reason the Vista version of IE7 can't talk http to
it, while other Oss work fine). So if you use virtual machines, consider a
better router. I might just go back to the sale and get a higher end
firewall, but not until they give more than 20% off.
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Costanzo
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:25 AM
To: Windows 2000 List
Subject: [windows2000] Home router recommendations
Hi list,
I'm looking to replace my main router at home and the two main reasons are
lack of features that I would now like. They are:
. Either no limit or a limit greater than 20 for the number of ports
that can be opened and forwarded to internal hosts on the network
. The ability to annotate port forwarding entries. I'd like it so
that when I open a port and forward it, I can put a note in there that says
"RDP for machineA" or "FTP site 1 access for brother"
. A plus would be if I could also implement some sort of IP security
when I open ports, so that if I want to setup an FTP site specifically for
my brother, I can restrict access at the firewall level to his IP only.
The answer can be "Install ISA Server" if it must be, but I'd really like to
avoid that great learning curve!
Thank you,
Ray at work
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