sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

Fri May 6 02:12:33 UTC 2016

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

>
> > On May 5, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Javier J <javier at advancedmachines.us> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a fan of the EdgeRouterLite3
> >
> >
> > I don't manage many small businesses networks anymore because we now do
> > only 100% cloud and remote work but I started deploying them to all my
> old
> > clients I still have on retainer.
> >
> >
> > It is a wonderful solid set it, and forget it device and you can manage
> it
> > with ssh (it is basically running a fork of Vyatta under the hood on
> Cavium
> > hardware which is nice because it does lots of hardware offload like any
> > other enterprise device.)
>
> I’ll +1 the Edgerouter series.  They are cheap and hit the right price
> performance ratio for most homes.
>
>
came here to say this, also they do v6, PD and all that jazz.

> You can do site-to-site IPSEC VPN stuff and easily SSH + tcpdump if
> necessary.
>
> If you are looking for more complex blocking rules and services, you need
> to be
> looking at something like the Deteque DNS service or the Cisco/OpenDNS
> services
> instead to nuke outbound malware connections and such.
>
>
also agree whole-heartedly with this sentiment.y