I will echo the thoughts of Tom Lynn ... I use 4 of the 5 I have under my control to do routing and firewalling ... Am playing with the Arno firewall on a couple of them tweaking the VPN stuff, learning how to make it do what I want ... Arno is tricky but I am starting to get the hang of it I think ... I am not smart enough to know if the Arno script and the voice prioritization step on each other so I have not tried to use both on same box ...
I am using voice prioritization on 2 including the one I keep in my home ... It seems that when I use the voice prioritization scheme, even when there is no voice traffic, the general internet access looses some of its steam ... But I have not run any definitive tests on it so at this point, its just gut feel, no proof ... What the voice priority scheme will do, is keep my wife's streaming audio/video adiction from messing with my voice traffic ... So even if it does have a modest hit, it seems to be worth it to me ... As always, your mileage may vary ... My Netgear FVS328 sits in my junk pile these days ... I do still use it from time to time when I pull my Astlinux box off line for maintenance ... I don't think I will toss out the Netgear quite yet, but the Astlinux box seems to perform dual duty well enough for my purposes ... I do have reservations about your choice of hardware ... I am not sure if the net4801 has enough CPU to do dual duty ... I think that with that little processing power, I would do one or the other but not both ... But there are a lot of folks on this forum who use the net4801 and would know better than me what its capabilities are ... Don't take my word as gospel ... It may be that it will handle routing and maybe 1 or 2 simultaneous calls just fine ... and if that is all you need, it will work fine for you ... G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil McKerracher Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Astlinux-users] Is it a good idea to use astlinux as a router? I'd like to use astlinux (on a net4801) to prioritize voice over data. First, do no harm...I don't want to slow down existing data traffic (or make it unreliable) when there's no voice traffic. So, is it a good idea to turn on the router functionality in astlinux and completely replace my old router (a Netgear RT314)? Or should I keep the old router and put the astlinux box in front or behind it? I only want basic NAT functionality in the router, plus a dynDNS client ideally. My internet connection is only 4Mbit/s, which I guess the net4801 can keep up with, but I occasionally backup files between PCs on the LAN at 100Mbit/s, which I guess it might not handle. (Hopefully this is a bit less controversial than my last question!) -- Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.net _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
