>>>>> "David" == David Lang <[email protected]> writes:
David> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:14 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If you are running *wrt on them, then you have the full power of the linux >>> kernel, so NAT tables filling up is a config option away. >> >> >> Nice inappropriate conflation. "low end commodity AP" --- think bottom or >> even middle of the line Netgear or Linksys --- these come with >> VxWorks-based firmware and no way to adjust the tiny NAT tables except by >> reflashing with *wrt (which for these units is often a challenge because >> they only accept firmware with the right config strings or checksums in >> them, and if you get it wrong you may have a brick on your hands). David> I thought the context was when using a *wrt build on one of these routers. David> some of these devices are far more brick-resistant than David> others. The netgear ones in particular tend to have a very David> bullet-proof flashing process. (the wndr3700 and similar) I'll say... I've got a WNDR3700v2 as my main AP at home, and I picked up another one from the recycle bin and was able to recover it from it's almost bricked state and now I have a spare. Very nice hardware. In any case... I'm not a huge fan of using these for routing if I can help it. I find the DNSmasq software to be anoying and obnoxious to use. I've been using m0n0wall as my home firewall for years, but the project just shutdown. And since the original author asked for a good AP device to use, I'm also partial to the ASUS RT-N56U and RT-N66U devices. Dual band and 802.11N support. No 802.11AC support, but honestly it's not the important yet, esp for the price premium. Basically, anything that's well supported by OpenWRT or DD-WRT will be a win as an access point. Add in shorewall or one of the other m0n0wall successors and you will be all set. John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
