On Fri, February 2, 2007 9:57 am, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 22:08 -0700, Andrew Hunter wrote: >> Hi to all. I'm setting up a couple of servers here at home and would >> find it very useful to find an appropriate router. I'm having some >> trouble filtering through different names given to different features, >> though. I'm looking for the ability to route an incoming request on a >> particular port to a specific port on a destination address inside the >> network. Anyway, the names I see for this are private port forwarding >> (the one that seems most correct to me), port triggering, application >> triggering, and a couple others I don't recall. Naturally, I might have >> mistook one of those names. Anyway, does anyone have any >> recommendations for routers that can do what I describe? I'm looking in >> the home-consumer level price range. Wireless is not needed. Many >> thanks. > > My personal recommendation would be to find any of the Linksys routers > that support OpenWRT and go with that. I have a WRT54G (v2) and love it. > I know you don't need the wireless, but that model is still a good one. > Don't get a v5 WRT though. That version has incompatible hardware and > the firmware for it blows. Unless you can find an older model, you'll > have to get the WRT54GL which is the same as the v4, but with a higher > price tag. To me, totally worth it. Check the OpenWRT site for a list of > compatible hardware. > > If you go with OpenWRT you'll have to tweak iptables rules directly, but > that seems easier to me than navigating the quagmire of "port > triggering, application triggering", etc. > > Or see if your ISP will assign you a few more IP addresses. That's truly > the best solution, IMNSHO. NAT is Evil(tm). > > Corey >
I like http://www.dd-wrt.com/ more than OpenWRT. I'm running it on my WRT54G, and it's nice. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
