Quoting mnna4, from the post of Tue, 07 Jan: > I agree. It seems that the non-pro model has a limited memory. > The situation is even worse with the cable modems. > The solution is to spend ~250$ on multi-function devices which give you > NAT, FW, switch and Wi-Fi or half of the price without Wi-Fi. > Of course, using a Linux machine to support all of that (except Wi-Fi) is > most > plausable. ( This a Linux list, isn't it :) )
NAT/switch boxes range these days from $40 to $100 online, they usually give you NAT, PAT, 4 switch ports 10/100 FDX and some of them even come with an IPSEC client to connect your home machine to the office. that's also a legitimate option I think, although I think setting up a NAT+PAT firewall on linux is a fun adventure for geeks. if you want to invest some more (as a business owner) there are boxes with a crippled FW1, virus check and other features from $400 to $1400, and they actually run embeded linux. for all other uses, I recommend you buy a $10 genius card as a second interface for your linux and turn it to a firewall+NAT. http://ira.abramov.org/linux/ADSLnetfilter.init.html or in plaintext: http://ira.abramov.org/linux/ADSLnetfilter.init -- Son of a preacher man Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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