[nlug] Re: vserver vs full virtualisation.

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Steven, Just wanted to say great writeup and thanks, very informative. Andy Farnsworth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com T

[nlug] Looking for the unlikely "consumer grade" product

2009-03-20 Thread Howard White
Happy Friday, all: Have a customer with a DSL connection. Their gateway is the AT&T complimentary Netopia unit, 4 port switch with wireless and the wireless is turned off. Customer needs two internal networks isolated from each other but using the shared access to the internet. (Long story

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely "consumer grade" product

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Coats
I think you are on the right track. For the billing rate, it is probably cheaper to use 2 wifi routers and a third router, or router with no wifi enabled than anything else. Just on a lark, take your DSL, hook it into a cheapie 4 port hub/switch, and plug the 'wan' side of your current routers i

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely "consumer grade" product

2009-03-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
You may want to consider a typical consumer grade router, like a Linksys, but use one of the open-source alternative firmwares, like DD-WRT or Tomato. I've used both extensively. DD-WRT has more functionality, but is harder to use and (in some cases) less stable. Tomato is has a very good user i

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely "consumer grade" product

2009-03-20 Thread Mark J. Bailey
does it have to be an appliance?? something like pfsense (http://www.pfsense.org/). it can do one or more WANs (though you need but one) and a LAN plus one or more OPTional networks (used for additional LANs and/or DMZ). don't use the WAN ports on any of the linksys's. just link the two with a

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely "consumer grade" product

2009-03-20 Thread Mark J. Bailey
for that matter, though pfsense is a PC version/expansion of m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0wall.org/) which is designed for embedded/appliance mainly, there have been some instances of an appliance approach, but, you would need to search their forums (which are quite informative) as I don't have anythi