[Sussex] router woes

[Gareth Ablett]

 From: Simon Huggins [mailto:huggie at earth.li]
 Subject: Re: [Sussex] router woes
 
> Hi LUG,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:30:15PM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> > Generally the little blue LinkSys routers are "da bomb" - you can
> > flash them with all sorts of Linux goodies..
> 

I'm not that big on the idea of using a linksys either tbh.

The Netgear unit the Richie mentioned was one I looked at for its
attractive price, the vigor one is a little expensive for my liking,
might check see if there are many on ebay.



> Some of them.  The WRT54G is specifically the one that's had lots of
> work IIRC.
> 
> I bought the WAG54G which was a mistake.  I knew it didn't run linux
but
> I didn't really care I thought I'd use it as an ADSL router but it
gets
> confused when there was a NATing gateway between it and the web
browser
> using its admin interface, there are many reports of its wireless not
> working well depending on the firmware revision (I already had a WAP
so
> I've not tried it) and despite turning all the firewalling off it
seemed
> to block traceroutes.
> 
> I'm using a linux box + a speedtouch frog now.  It means I can benefit
> from the native IPv6 we offer which is quite nifty but it also just
> gives me more control so if you're a geek and want to control as much
of
> your connection as possible then I'd recommend it.

This isn't really a possible route to take considering I have a block of
6 IP's to use.

> I used to use a connexant router before the linksys one and I had
issues
> with that forcing me to use PPPoE for various bits when I didn't want
> to.



Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

ITP Services Ltd.
http://www.itpserve.co.uk/

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