On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:42:39PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote: > My fellow worker Jay recently got QWest DSL via EFN, and got the Actiontec > device; he's been pretty happy with it. It can do what you're describing, > simple firewalling and routing, and has slots to add PCCard wireless cards > as well.
Too bad it only works with Actiontec 802.11b cards. They cost more than several 802.11g routers do at this point. The firewall feature is generally no crappier than I have come to expect from most network appliance router/firewalls, but the average free UNIX variant provides a lot more power and control. You'll find that anything which has a simple Windows-common workaround to firewall issues (regardless of how pathetic) is probably going to expect that you use them. I don't recall even that non-passive FTP was supported. I'm picking nits obviously, but it was once possible to turn off the Actiontec firewall and do the job yourself so it can be done right. The other concern is that Qwest waited 9 months to tell people about a security flaw with the Actiontec because of a bug in their software which made the new/fixed firmware incompatible. > With my own ReachDSL setup, i have the endpoint feeding a little NetGear > NATbox that also does wireless. This apparently isn't possible anymore with Qwest DSL. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
