On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > Come with a few things installed. > I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on > Belkin routers. > Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in > the current atmosphere of net/privacy invasion. Hmm, well Linksy consumer routers have flaky firmware, dropped connections etc. firmware upgrades 'from Linksys' do not fix the problems, thank goodness for third party firmware folks. dd-wrt has saved a few Linksys routers from the garbage . > Why I'm thinking off doing the same thing. > Entry box with firewall/router and port forwarding to another old stackable > desktop for email. > Upside? > Networking knowledge! > Enough for a small business, and the basis to look at larger projects. > Regards, > > Weaver. Not to over emphasize one over another, my experience is with dd-wrt. A lot of consumer wireless/routers are based on the Broadcom 5xxx series of chips, cheap stuff but dd-wrt makes them work reliably. The Third party firmware stuff has 'enterprise' features in consumer hardware. More featres than I use, but if networking knowledge is a goal this is a cheap way to go. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102201956.07869.gomadtr...@gci.net
