I think I'd use a Snapgear 300 series for a firewall, something wireless for a wireless access point, and a separate modem. I put these in at client sites, where they're rock solid, plus I've personally been using a Snapgear 560 for quite a few years now (this one does fail-over - I have multiple connections to the internet -, and, as well, has a separate processor for doing encrypt/decrypt on multiple busy IPSEC connections). Snapgear's been successively acquired by a number of increasingly-larger companies over the years, but, through all that, they've continued to provide free firmware updates. They're also really good about supporting open source work. If you check out s/wan, for instance, you'll see snapgear engineers working there.
I've had to reboot once in eight (nine?) years. I think that may have been a power surge. Got a power conditioning UPS and haven't had an issue in the last five or six. What else? IPSEC's easy to setup, PPTP (server and client) rock solid. Ditto L2TP. Built-in SNORT, plus intrusion detection. (you can "go dark" for a particular address if you detect they're port probing). I'm a DD-WRT fan, too, but, compared to these boxes it isn't even close. However, WRT may be enough for your needs. -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75074 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
