[nlug] Looking for the unlikely consumer grade product

2009-03-20 Thread Howard White
Happy Friday, all: Have a customer with a DSL connection. Their gateway is the ATT complimentary Netopia unit, 4 port switch with wireless and the wireless is turned off. Customer needs two internal networks isolated from each other but using the shared access to the internet. (Long story

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely consumer grade product

2009-03-20 Thread Jack Coats
I think you are on the right track. For the billing rate, it is probably cheaper to use 2 wifi routers and a third router, or router with no wifi enabled than anything else. Just on a lark, take your DSL, hook it into a cheapie 4 port hub/switch, and plug the 'wan' side of your current routers

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely consumer grade product

2009-03-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
You may want to consider a typical consumer grade router, like a Linksys, but use one of the open-source alternative firmwares, like DD-WRT or Tomato. I've used both extensively. DD-WRT has more functionality, but is harder to use and (in some cases) less stable. Tomato is has a very good user

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely consumer grade product

2009-03-20 Thread Mark J. Bailey
for that matter, though pfsense is a PC version/expansion of m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0wall.org/) which is designed for embedded/appliance mainly, there have been some instances of an appliance approach, but, you would need to search their forums (which are quite informative) as I don't have