-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-07 00:01, jsa wrote:
On 01/06/2011 02:46 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:19:36 +0100 (CET), "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Get a router that supports alternative firmwares like DDWRT and run the lfirewall on it.
But Getting a new router was an expense Carlos was looking to avoid.
Correct.
To me, the easiest thing seems to be to do this with a Linux machine as the only thing attached to the ISP.
No, the easiest is doing nothing :-P A PC is not enough. For one, it doesn't have an ADSL port, so I still need the router from the provider. Then, the old PC I have has only one eth port, and for a router you need two - being an old computer, it might be impossible to get that card. And having very little memory (the one I have has only 32 Megs) it can run very few distros, if any at all. Then, on the home side ethernet port, I would have to plug a switch to connect my local machines. I would also need a wifi port to feed the laptop. That's four machines to replace the existing router. A lot of space (I already have a 2 meter high iron rack) and electricity (and maintenance effort) for something I do not need at all to do. If I were to do it, I would prefer some dedicated little box, a real router, preferable with open source code, as Philip says - but as I have no need for that, I'll do nothing till the current setup breaks down (at which moment I'll buy whatever I can get locally in a hurry), or till the ISP pushes upgrades down to the users - which in any case I would be forced to do when they do decide to change to IPv6. If someone has a suggestion of a real good and cheap router, with adsl port, wifi, generic code, support for IPv4, V6, and whatever is needed now and for the future (wow!), then speak up! :-) Not that I would buy that right now, but I would take a note for the future. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk0mazwACgkQja8UbcUWM1yCPQD+ImzAadCYocDEOm5jEGaLuGkU pgq3Lp0kftQJE0i3drMBAIKtjWSUbltYiMct2KV7wuIdxwmDm+3SSWHHYZa27NMw =EqY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org