[mdlug] Routing Situation - Suggestions/Opinions

[Peter Bart]

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 15:27 -0500, Robert Adkins II wrote:
> We recently upgraded the DSL service at the office to essentially twice as
> fast as it used to be. Unfortunately, our older DSL Router isn't capable of
> going that fast. Luckily, they sent us a new one... and it is a POS. It is
> incpabable of performing half the routing/firewalling of the older/slower
> router.
>  
> For example, I need only our email server and two other internal IP
> Addresses to have "direct" access to the Internet and all other systems to
> be forced into going through the proxy server. The options on the new
> Netopia router include allowing me to point external ports to internal
> addresses, but otherwise everything on the inside has full, direct (and
> speedy!) access to the wild, wild, west.
>  
> Here's my thoughts:
>  
> 1. Pickup a good Cable Internet Router that can be upgraded with dd-wrt or
> OpenWrt
>  
> 2. Replace the firmware with one of the above mentioned types.
>  
> 3. Place the Upgraded Cable Modem in between the network and the Netopia
> POS, configure the routing we need and away we go.
>  
> Is this is an easily workable plan? 
>  
> Thanks,
> Rob

Rob,
	If you decide to go with dd-wrt, Buffalo sells wifi routers w/dd-wrt
installed.
<http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/routers-and-access-points/>
-- 
Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber