NETGEAR in the core...

Sun Jul 31 03:54:34 UTC 2005

At 11:32 PM 7/30/2005, Henry Yen wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 10:11:28AM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote:
> > >I'm interested in people's experiences with consumer-grade routers
> > >functioning in non-NAT mode; that is to say, running PPPoE to the ISP
> > >and routing a /29 or a /28.  A sane filtering language and stateful
> > >firewall that can operate in non-NAT mode is a plus.
>
> > http://www.cyberguard.com/products/firewall/SG_Family/
>
>I think linux runs inside those.  Vendor-supplied, yes, but if the OP
>wants to avoid linux altogether...

That's correct. It is claimed to be quite hardened. We have around one 
hundred of their 550 and 575 boxes deployed and they seem to work pretty 
well although I prefer the PIX. The SG can do much more, but the PIX does 
what it does better.

>No personal experience, but could a LinkSys/WRT45g with
>custom linux load be even cheaper?

Probably.

>Can a cisco 1600 run PPPoE?

I've never tried it, but if they can run 12.2, they should do PPPoE.

R

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