Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Hayes
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When using a free OS as a router or firewall the main issue tends not to be the OS itself but the box you are running it on. To really be useful as a black box router it needs to be a small, fanless PC, preferably booted off a flash

DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Stephane Russell
This is a very general post. I've just buy a Linksys Wireless router, and it comes with a router, a firewall with forwarding and natting capability and a DHCP server. I'm wondering if it's a equivalent choice (for speed, security, etc) to use such a router for my network, or if it just can't be as

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2007-12-28 17:55, Stephane Russell wrote: This is a very general post. I've just buy a Linksys Wireless router, and it comes with a router, a firewall with forwarding and natting capability and a DHCP server. I'm wondering if it's a equivalent choice (for speed, security, etc) to use such a

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Jasse Jansson
Sdävtaker wrote: I was using a P1/233MMX with DFBSD before buy a linksys router. I got the linksys router becouse the P1 micro crashed and i couldnt find a replacement, linksys router (WRT54G) sucks, i got to restart it once per week at least, it likes to crash a lot even with the lastest

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Masson
Jasse Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, For the Linksys stuff ,check this one out: http://www.polarcloud.com/tomatofaq I have not updated my own unit yet, but I'm told it's one of the better updates for the WRT56 series routers out there. I'm running this on different platforms, and

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
When using a free OS as a router or firewall the main issue tends not to be the OS itself but the box you are running it on. To really be useful as a black box router it needs to be a small, fanless PC, preferably booted off a flash drive instead of a hard drive.

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Michael Neumann
Matthew Dillon wrote: When using a free OS as a router or firewall the main issue tends not to be the OS itself but the box you are running it on. To really be useful as a black box router it needs to be a small, fanless PC, preferably booted off a flash drive instead of a hard

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Thomas Donnelly
Michael Neumann wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: When using a free OS as a router or firewall the main issue tends not to be the OS itself but the box you are running it on. To really be useful as a black box router it needs to be a small, fanless PC, preferably booted off a flash

Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

2007-12-28 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:42:06 +0100, Jasse Jansson wrote: Sdävtaker wrote: I was using a P1/233MMX with DFBSD before buy a linksys router. I got the linksys router becouse the P1 micro crashed and i couldnt find a replacement, linksys router (WRT54G) sucks, i got to restart it once per week