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- Subject: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding
- From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:24:23 -0400
- In-reply-to: <20140516180058.8173.jc@trillian.mit.edu>
- References: <20140516180058.8173.jc@trillian.mit.edu>
I just bought one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704150 Put OpenWRT on it, and I'm loving it. The default firmware isn't bad, but had some issues bridging the wifi to my wired lan (which was on this access point's WAN port). Plus I wanted an excuse to put openWRT on it. OpenWRT solved all my issues, and was trivial to install. The hardware is nice because it has both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz radios, and you can configure them independently (e.g. make the 2.4 radio do 802.11a/n, and the 5Gz do 802.11s. The dual-band radios mean you'll be able to do It can do all the standard firewall stuff (including port forwarding / NAT), even with the stock firmware. It's also got a usb port, so you could hook up a drive to it and have it be a little media server too. All for $40. What I'd like to do is make my Verizon actiontec device a transparent bridge and have the TP-Link device with openwrt be the main gateway for my home connection (i.e. the only DHCP server, NAT box, etc), but while I found some instructions on how to do that, I don't have the nerve to try it quite yet. Matt On 06/16/2014 06:00 PM, jc at trillian.mit.edu wrote: > While contemplating the problems our oldish linux > gateway/firewall/router has been having, it occured to me > that it might be a good excuse to get some experience with > at least one of the connercial boxes that do the job "out > of the box". And naturally it also occurred me that the > folks on this list just might have comments to make on the > subject. > > So what might be some good ones to try out? We have some > web sites that we're supporting, so it'd have to be limited > to those that can do port forwarding, at least for ports > 80, 443, 22, and maybe a few others. > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > _' > O > <:#/> John Chambers > + <jc at trillian.mit.edu> > /#\ <jc1742 at gmail.com> > | | > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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