<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>You can run openvpn and ctorrent on a wl520.. Or you can do what I have done for VPN is to get a oem router off trademe. I just got a netscreen 5xt firewall for $10 which is crazy considering they were 1k about 4 years ago, plus I picked up a cisco 1721 a few weeks ago which supports VPN dyndns vlans and full firewall for $50. For me I prefer the cisco as my work laptop which must run window (Corp requirement) has cisco VPN to get into the office. So I now have two profiles, one for work one for home and nomachine is just sweet.<br><br>But that's not using a good Linux solution but the client side was what really works for me, and uses a lot less power than a desktop. I vpn to my cisco remotely, Ssh to my openwrt router, send a wol packet to wake up my desktop and I am away.</div><div><br>On 12/11/2009, at 10:28 PM, William Hamilton <<a href="mailto:william.hamilton@gmail.com">william.hamilton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks Peter.. I shoudl add.. currently setup as a VPN server too and a number of security tools... grunt may be required more than teh ASUS or WRT beasts may provide. I liek the addition of USB port on the devices these days.. my old WRT-54G at home should get an upgrade one day but it just keeps trucking along but uses dd-WRT rather tha OpenWRT<br>
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I would just go for a router that supports OpenWRT.<br><br>The Asus WL-520gU is pretty good. <a href="http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=361718" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=361718">http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=361718</a></a> Ascent are out of stock, but there will be plenty of others on price spy who should be able to find one.<br>
<br>Cheap as chips it's the same hardware as the linksys WRT54GL, but it has a USB Port.<br><br>I sorted one out for a friend months ago, and havn't heard anything since (which is always a good sign).<br><br>Unless you want to do IDS/SPI... then you might need something with more grunt.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:24 PM, William Hamilton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.hamilton@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:william.hamilton@gmail.com">william.hamilton@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Since people here know verything.. :)<br><br>I have an old SFF PC running as a Linux based firewall and looking at replacement options. Network config back to a standard EXT/INT/DMZ but may require additional one or two zones again later. I have currently 4port card and internal NIC. Similar setup would be grand.<br>
<br>Embedded devices or SFF PC again?? <br><font color="#888888"><br>W<br><br>
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