I think in the longer term we are going to remove the device and put a Draytek in there in its place as they are consistently a known quantity.
Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Liechty Sent: 12 May 2015 18:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Zxyel Routers On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, I have a Zyxel router at a small remote site and need to set up some rules to allow/ deny access to services behind it. The manual for the router is shocking and although describes where the firewall is, doesn’t explain the way that it should be configured. ####### I grabbeed one of these for a small Customer a couple of years ago. Was not a great plan. Turns out I had much the same issues you describe. I was sure I had the config correct and tore it down and put it back several times to get it to work. Holding a live chicken over the top and cutting it’s head off seemed to help. 6 months later in the middle of the day for zero reason the entire config vanished. Went back on-site and applied again and all was fine. Called tech support and they were clueless but took many hours to validate they had zero clue. Same thing a few months later. Config vanishes. We got a replacement RMA and it was solid for another year or so. I kinda liked the price point and features but based on the experiences would not buy again. It is just not worth the risk for my customer base. I can deal with less functionality or higher or lower price. I cannot deal with random device wipes and zero support as to what happened. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
