On Jul 23, 2004, at 7:44 AM, Mike Hebel wrote:
I have an old Linksys. The problem with it is that I can't block incoming IP addresses. It does have the worthless feature of allowing me to block some of my internal machines from accessing the Internet. But not the reverse.
This is the type of thing that I want a cheap router for: I don't know how one can stop it in SIMS. But reasonable firewall software and/or a NAT/firewall router ought to do it. Unfortunately, I don't have any recommendations for a good product.
If you're running SIMS on something light like less than 100 users then
something inexpensive like a Linksys router with firewall will work just
fine. Ther are others just as good - I have a Speedstream 5861 that works
quite well at home.
Anything more than that and I'd suggest either:
1) Building a firewall machine from scratch. Smoothwall and OpenBSD are
fairly easy to configure for firewall duty. I use OpenBSD myself.
2) Buying a commercial router. Cisco has 2600 series routers that support
DSL, T1, and Frame quite effectively. Although this would require
learning IOS.
Mike Hebel
I have downloaded the manuals for the newer Linksys devices and, as far as I can tell, they have the same limitation. I'd rather not have another whole computer on line all the time to do this.
Sigh. Maybe it is time to get a commercial quality router between myself and the Internet.
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