If you are going to be under siege, you can run a Linux firewall box with 3 interfaces directly from your cable box, we are doing a presentation/lab at HackFest the 2nd Saturday (next weekend) at UAT.edu.
It will give you vpn, pptp, whatever you want?
And you can populate it with 1000G network interfaces.
You can purchase the box and the cards for about $150.
Course, if you don't think you will be terribly under seige, like a security professional or woman might be, you can get a WRT54 and put openwrt on it. But this is not for the slight - it's a wee small linux box all command line.
At least the FOSS Firewall box iso's configured as secure as say any Coyote Point, or Juniper Os firewall, have easy peasy little configuration wizards that are not too difficult to understand.
Do the math? Return on investment. Do you want a small arm processor with 8/32GB, and 10/100 interfaces that, when hit with a distributed nmap attack (spoofed to originate from China) will fall over and let $badpeople either do remote management, auth access, or remote firmware update.... so that the machine never works right, you get rats in all your walls on all your boxes, when you can build and protect with a Pentium class system with an enterprise open source firewall?
It's just a DHCP that is passed off from the cable company, and another clue, you don't have to get a "cable" modem and a "router" - products exist that do both - including a linux box - but that's for the advanced class.
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:19:01 -0700
Subject: Re: router opinions wanted
From:
unixprgrmr01@gmail.com
To:
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
ck out Netgear I've had good luck with them...
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Robert Holtzman <
holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
Total noob wrt networks. I'm about to dive into setting up a home LAN
and could use some opinions/advise/warnings/ideas about routers. Not
sure yet whether the LAN will be wireless or not.
Any routers to look for? Any to avoid?
Is it possible to disable a wireless router's transmitter and use it
with cable? I thought I might like to try it as hard wired but
retain the capability of going wireless later. I've run a lot of
searches on this question and haven't seen anything.
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Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
check the price of the beer"
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