Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of j...@trillian.mit.edu > > So what might be some good ones to try out? We have some I think everything can do port forwarding. The decision for me is usually driven by (a) vpn,

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Metro
j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: > ...it occured to me that it might be a good excuse to get some > experience with at least one of the connercial boxes that do the > job "out of the box". Take a look at a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite or Pro: http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax It's priced like a consumer rout

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/16/2014 2:09 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > What's your budget? I think really highly of the Juniper > SRX240h2, for example, but if you aren't planning on moving a > couple hundred megabits per second across several links, it's > probably wasted. ($2400ish, btw.) For that kind of money I'd recommen

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Matthew Gillen
I just bought one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704150 Put OpenWRT on it, and I'm loving it. The default firmware isn't bad, but had some issues bridging the wifi to my wired lan (which was on this access point's WAN port). Plus I wanted an excuse to put o

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:00:58PM +, j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: > While contemplating the problems our oldish linux > gateway/firewall/router has been having, it occured to me > that it might be a good excuse to get some experience with > at least one of the connercial boxes t

[Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread jc
While contemplating the problems our oldish linux gateway/firewall/router has been having, it occured to me that it might be a good excuse to get some experience with at least one of the connercial boxes that do the job "out of the box". And naturally it also occurred me that the