(I have been trying to post this for a couple of days and so far it has neither
bounced nor shown up -- our mail gateway crashed and ate it, I think. Apologies
in advance if this shows up again later...)
I am getting ready to set up a firewall between my DSL provider and my lan at
home (nothing big -- 3 machines there), and have been planning to use an old
200Mhz pentium machine as the firewall box. However, this weekend I saw some
info on a Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, model # BEFSR41.
Its feature list looks impressive, and the street price is somewhere down around
150-160 as best I can figure. The box is a 4-port hub/router with the firewall
built in, and it supports 10/100 Mbit lan on the local side.
The only real drawbacks I can discern so far are that many of the advanced
features are not supported except through reading the manual (what a concept: a
manual with information :-) [no hassle], and that the only OS's they really know
about are apparently Win95/98/NT (2000? -- I'm not sure).
Anyway, does anyone have any experience with this box -- it looks awfully
attractive at this price... Any drawbacks? Any problems? Feel free to write me
off list if you would like, and I will summarize if there are enough responses.
Apologies if this has been answered already -- my search in the archives didn't
turn up anything so I posted the question here.
Thanks,
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