I've had the SMC wireless router for about 2 months and over all I'm
glad I bought it. First thing is that I'm writing this from my laptop in
the living room while watching tv in my lazy boy.
Well after about a month the DHCP server in it died so I had to talk
to tech support and after about an hour we decided to replace it. I say
we because the tech on the phone sounded like he couldn't figure out the
problem and I said lets replace it and he was happy to get me off the
phone.
As others have said the logging sucks on the device. I would love to
be able to specify a network share and have it write to a file there. As
far security I ran it up to GRC shields up and right out of the box it
had all the ports in "stealth" mode except 113, the ident port. I still
run zone alarm to protect me from trojans or spy ware. I also have the
WEP turned off so zone alarm should help if anyone tries a "drive by
hacking" on my network. Just so you can see I have included a copy of my
log from the router. Everything up to the two log in events is normal
information for me but everything after is the GRC test. You'll note
that despite all the code red traffic I know I'm getting there isn't a
mention of it in the logs.
Bottom line, If you want a router that works and has a lot of
convent features the go for it. If security and logging are the things
you really want then set up a BSD or linux router from an old pentium
box you might have.
Mike Brown
MCSE 4.0
web hosting Tech support rep
and according to the T-shirt my employer makes me ware I'm a "client
saver" what ever that means.
Charley Hamilton wrote:
> Has anyone used the SMC Barricade (P/N SMC7004AWBR) for home
> networking/firewall/etc? (it seems to be a swiss army knife-type
> device)
>
> I've seen quite a bit about similar (apparently earlier) models on
> Practically Networked, awaremag, and the like. I was wondering if
> anyone had come across any real gotchas, including serious exploits.
> None were mentioned that I saw.
>
> If you've used it, do you have any comments on it? Good? Bad?
> Indifferent?
>
> Price seems right & the integrated features seem useful for a
> small home network, especially for those of us who are often too
> swamped by other work to learn to admin some *nix variant.
> Figured I'd ask before I bought.
>
> Charley
>
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> Charles Hamilton, MS EIT Doctoral Candidate
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> Environmental Engineering FAX: 949.824.2117
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