Re: Broadband Router/Firewall

[archan <archan@example.com>]

Hi Stephen,
How about using LBoard? I am not doing the promo for lborad but as one 
of the developer of the software for lboard, I prefer it. I am 
personally using it as my gateway/firewall. It is running linux, hence u 
can do the twick u want. It's throughput is 100mbps with two nic having 
eepro100. I clocked it till 22mbps is test condition. I have bundled 
rp-pppoe for the ADSL connectivity it works cool in my FLETS/Zoot ADSL 
service at home. I have not yet tested it with yahooBB. Infact, I am 
waiting for yahooBB.... service in my home.

archan

ps. how is the speed for yahooBB ?

Stephen Lee wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I got my Yahoo! BB ADSL connection last week, and is considering getting
>a broadband router.  Upon some research I found that there are basically
>two price ranges: the more expensive ones with "Stateful Inspection"
>firewalls, and the cheap ones with just packet filtering (or none at all).
>
>Also, the ones that comes out pre-Usen/Yahoo! have lower throughput
>(designed just for Flet's ADSL's 1.5Mbps downlink).
>
>I am thinking of getting the more expensive type, but would like to get
>some opinions.
>
>1. Is Stateful Inspection worth the extra 15,000 yen or so?  Should I
>forget it and just get a cheap NAT/Masq box?
>
>2. Anyone has experience with Allied Telesis's AR320?  It seems to be the
>most featureful but has only 10Mbps interfaces on both sides, so I am
>worried about its throughput.
>
>http://www.allied-telesis.co.jp/products/product/brouter/ar320/index.html
>
>3. I am also considering ZyXEL's ZyWALL 10, or a SonicWall but those seems
>to be expensive.  Any experience in those?
>
>4. Planex's BRL-04FW is the most inexpensive but they don't provide
>manuals on their website so I can't check how the user interface is.  (And
>I know some of you have some not-so-good experience with PCI gear).
>
>http://www.planex.co.jp/brl-01/brl-04fw.htm
>
>Stephen
>
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