Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use
On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
>
> Come with a few things installed.
> I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on
> Belkin routers.
> Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in
> the current atmosphere of net/privacy invasion.
Hmm, well Linksy consumer routers have flaky firmware, dropped connections etc.
firmware upgrades 'from Linksys' do not fix the problems, thank goodness for
third party firmware folks. dd-wrt has saved a few Linksys routers from the
garbage .
> Why I'm thinking off doing the same thing.
> Entry box with firewall/router and port forwarding to another old stackable
> desktop for email.
> Upside?
> Networking knowledge!
> Enough for a small business, and the basis to look at larger projects.
> Regards,
>
> Weaver.
Not to over emphasize one over another, my experience is with dd-wrt. A lot of
consumer wireless/routers are based on the Broadcom 5xxx series of chips, cheap
stuff but dd-wrt makes them work reliably. The Third party firmware stuff
has 'enterprise' features in consumer hardware. More featres than I use, but if
networking knowledge is a goal this is a cheap way to go.
--
Peace,
Greg
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