Re: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Owen DeLong
Having significant experience with all three products, I will strongly suggest going with the SRX-100 if at all possible. It's real JunOS, even if it does take a bit of bludgeoning to get it to stop impersonating a netscreen security model. It's the same price the NS5GTs used to sell for ~$5-600

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Owen DeLong
Yeah, the one unfortunate ting in the J-series and SRX-series is that after 9.6 you have to put in a whole bunch of config to turn it back into a router. JunOS on these "services" routers now wants to behave like a netscreen until bludgeoned otherwise. The way to achieve this is not intuitively ob

RE: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Berkman
ood things. -Scott -Original Message- From: Charles N Wyble [mailto:char...@knownelement.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:46 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Home CPE choice On 03/31/2010 04:07 PM, William Warren wrote: > I run Astaro on a p-4 celey i had lying around. Get

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Jens Link
Charles N Wyble writes: > Have you tried pfsense, or do you find the built in > functionality/configuration system to be sufficient? AFAIK IPv6 is not supported via the GUI, but everything else is okay. Jens -- - |

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Jens Link
Charles N Wyble writes: > Should one get a "real" cisco router? The 877 or something? 871 works very well here. You may find on heap on eBay. But *don't* get an 861. Last time i checked there was no IOS with IPv6 support for this model. > My current home router is a cisco 1841. I keep my 6mbp

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Patrick Vande Walle
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:04:29 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 31/03/2010 23:55, Charles N Wyble wrote: >> What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high >> end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those >> (netgear in particular). > > Some peopl

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-04-01 Thread Marco Hogewoning
On 1 apr 2010, at 02:04, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 31/03/2010 23:55, Charles N Wyble wrote: >> What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high >> end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those >> (netgear in particular). > > Some people have sai

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread jonesnco
Netscreen 5GTs will also do IPv6 with some ScreenOS 5.4 code revs (5.4.0r10.0 for sure). Those pop up on Ebay for $60ish and make respectable home CPE devices. Not quite the horsepower of the SSG5 but they seem to hold up reasonably well. Dan Jones Juniper's SSG5 and SRX100 are nice optio

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Johnstone
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > I'm running IPcop on a mini ITX machine (old processor out of my laptop > T5500), a cheapo stick of memory and a sata to CF adaptor with a 4gb CF > card. All in all cost me about $350. Been running IPcop's for about 6 > years now on variou

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread David Andersen
On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > > Is there a market for a new breed of CPE running OpenWRT or pfsense on > hardware with enough CPU/RAM to not fall over? Hi, Charles -- as a few hardware points to consider: Both the Soekris and Alix hardware is still very solid. We've bee

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 04:07 PM, William Warren wrote: I run Astaro on a p-4 celey i had lying around. Get far more than any little router you'll see..can't beat the price. Astaro looks cool. I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 04:03 PM, Joe Johnson wrote: I have a small HP dummy terminal I installed a CFIDE card in with m0n0wall that has run beautifully for the past 3 years. No moving parts I take it? I think I've played with m0n0wall in the past. Barely has any power draw and cost me a whopping $1

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 04:03 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote: Given a marked lack of $significant funding for home routing, I rock BSD boxen all over. Cool. I'm looking at pfsense to replace my cisco. I want to move the router to my lab for CCIE studies. Have you tried pfsense, or do you find the built in fun

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 03/31/2010 05:04 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 31/03/2010 23:55, Charles N Wyble wrote: Some people have said that the Fritz!box is quite good. No idea if it's approved for use in the US. Nick, Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of this product. It looks pretty cool.

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 31/03/2010 23:55, Charles N Wyble wrote: What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those (netgear in particular). Some people have said that the Fritz!box is quite good. No idea if it's approv

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Dillon
What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end > d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experiences with those > (netgear in particular). > > Should one get a "real" cisco router? IMHO, you should look to Japan, Korea and China for suppliers. Even if you are sm

RE: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Blake Pfankuch
I'm running IPcop on a mini ITX machine (old processor out of my laptop T5500), a cheapo stick of memory and a sata to CF adaptor with a 4gb CF card. All in all cost me about $350. Been running IPcop's for about 6 years now on various hardware going back to a dual p3 500 with 256mb of ram and

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Leen Besselink
On 04/01/2010 12:55 AM, Charles N Wyble wrote: Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking about CPE choice. What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end d-link/linksys/n

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Iain Morris
Juniper's SSG5 and SRX100 are nice options for home. I've enjoyed an SSG5 for awhile now. SRX100 for junos. SSG5's pop up on ebay occasionally for a few $100. -Iain On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Marty Anstey wrote: > > > > > Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) > > >

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Marty Anstey
> > Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) > > > The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me > thinking about CPE choice. > > What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the > high end d-link/linksys/netgear products? I've had bad experie

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread William Warren
On 3/31/2010 6:55 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: Hopefully this e-mail is considered operational content :) The recent thread on the new linkys kit and ipv6 support got me thinking about CPE choice. What good off the shelf solutions are out there? Should one buy the high end d-link/linksys/net

RE: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Joe Johnson
I have a small HP dummy terminal I installed a CFIDE card in with m0n0wall that has run beautifully for the past 3 years. Barely has any power draw and cost me a whopping $100 after shipping. I keep a few of the dummy terminals around in case this one dies (it's about 6 years old and came from a

Re: Home CPE choice

2010-03-31 Thread Jack Carrozzo
Given a marked lack of $significant funding for home routing, I rock BSD boxen all over. At one point we had several doing OSPF in my apartment (because we could) but I moved and am now behind a single Sun Netra ($30) with BSD, natd, and iptables. Works beautifully. If you're only interested in re