[Wolves] Smoothwall or router oh and cionnection sharing?

Andy Hill andyhilluk2004 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Apr 7 12:01:11 BST 2004


Hi Wayne,
 
>From my experience i would recommend the D-Link dsl 504t, but make sure that if you use it make sure its got the updated firmware.  You can block ports and stuff like that on it. And there are dead reliable. I think they cost about £80.
 
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Regards

Andy Hill 

Wayne Morris <wayne at machx.co.uk> wrote:
Hi chaps,

I've had a smoothwall for ever and a day now, which has been fine apart
from its reluctance to allow some people to ftp thru it and also its
inability to use any web cam progs like MS Messenger from a computer
behind it.
Anyway, I'm getting an ADSL line fitted in a few days (I've already got
a blueyonder cable connection - free due to cock up in BY's staff liason
department - I used to have a lodger who worked for them and when he
left both my house and their employment they forgot to turn off his free
internet - a year ago!) - so I'm getting the ADSL line in case they
suddenly remember and turn it off overnight.

So the ADSL line is going to need a modem, if not a modem/router so I
was wondering would I be as well as to ditch the smoothall and rely on
the router to act a firewall? Am I barking up the wrong tree here or
wouldn't this have the same function as the smoothwall in a smaller box?
Any recommends for such a router? Or if the advice is to stick with
smoothwall, a suitable internal/external modem that smoothwall will deal
with nicely?

And then the bonus question for ten points : with two connections how
difficult is it to set up load sharing or would there be any
implications of having a internal network with two separate outgoing 
internet connections 

Cheers

Wayne






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