[mdlug] Routing Situation - Suggestions/Opinions

[Robert Adkins II]

  Dan,

	I have many old boxes laying around that I could do this with.

	The reason I am not going this route is specifically the reasons you
mention regarding uptime. I don't have time to build two or three machines
for the same task and then build/rebuild another whole system if/when one
fails.

	-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Pritts
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:46 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Routing Situation - Suggestions/Opinions
> 
> 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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