[wellylug] Broadband Router (was: Broadband)

[Donald Gordon]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:45:23 +1200
Jethro Carr <dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> > I think Jethro might be in the category that if you offered him $98 (cost 
> > of DSE router) to create a linux firewall he'd be really happy - and he 
> > gets the added value of learning maybe one of two more things.
> > (Even I'd create you a firewall for $98 :-)
>  
> 
> I would build one myself, except that many old pc's (mine at least),
> make a racketm, eat much more power than a simple appliance and take up
> more room. :-(

Well, if you want to spend about twice as much, you can get a Linkcisco
WRT54G, which gives you wireless (which you may not care about), but
also runs Linux.  If you run something like OpenWRT on it, then you can
install an SSH server and run iptables and friends on it.  Mine even has
joe and screen installed :-)

> Idealy, I would like to get a nice cisco router (use them in Cisco CCNA
> course). Then I could do some of the neat cisco tricks. But, since they
> are at least $800, I'll keep dreaming...

I have one piece of cisco equipment: a Catalyst 1924something switch; it
cost me $50.  But it's old, and noisy, and most of the ports are 10Mbps.
And it does VLAN tagging, which I wanted, but not 802.1q, only a wierd
cisco protocol that nothing supports, which isn't too useful.

donald