[Sussex] Router

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:48:53 +0100 (BST), jon at 3ait.co.uk <jon at 3ait.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:26:49 +0100, Gareth Ablett
> > <gareth.ablett at itpserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I currently have a router that does the job :S but I am looking for
> >> something that will allow me to setup groups of port fowarding and
> >> setup multiple IP's easily.
> >>
> >> Any ideas would be helpful or I will go out and get a £60 linksys one.
> 
> Eww, Linksys :|
> 
> > It has two
> > cheapo network cards and bridges my local intranet to the big wide
> > world. It does DHCP/NAT and pretty much nothing else.
> 
> *feels the need to point out that that isn't a bridge, it's a router, and
> doing exactly zero bridging :)*

I *knew* the pedants would jump on that one :D

> You could look at m0n0wall if you want to have a PC doing the routing
> without the hassle of building your own distro - www.m0n0.ch/wall/

Hassle? What hassle. Insert CD, install standard distro, add a couple
of packages, configure my firewall rules, job done. It was all
installed in a few hours, and I have the flexibility to add additional
packages easily "apt-get is my friend".

> It also runs on these: soekris.kd85.com - they're very, very good, and
> suprisinly cheap :)

I already had some spare hardware kicking around - which is even cheaper :D

> Or I have a basic LinITX box w/IDE->CF adapter for sale, and it even comes
> preinstalled with m0n0wall :)

Now those are seriously cute. Only problem I have is again it can't
easily have extra stuff installed because it'd run out of space on the
CF card, and anything that does a lot of IO would wear the card out
quickly.

Each to their own though of course.
Al.