[mdlug] Routing Situation - Suggestions/Opinions

[Dan Pritts]

I've had limited but very good experience with DD-WRT.  If your new router supports it that would be my first shot. 

Another option, of course, would be to take an old box and make it a router. I know there are various firewall and routing-oriented distributions, or you can just use whatever distro you're comfortable with and deal with it from the command line.

If you do go this route, and uptime is important, make sure you have another old box ready to go if the box croaks.  

On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:27 PM, 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
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