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Guspaz
Guspaz
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| reply to Cubytus
Re: Most reliable and speedy variety of WRT54G for Toomato/MLPPP
Not even a smartphone, Opera Mini on a regular clamshell 
I'd be cautious about the WZRG144. It may require the "ND" version of Tomato, and we've never got it to compile, so we don't have an "ND" version of Tomato/MLPPP. I believe ND stands for "New Drivers".
Tomato does the pretty standard firewall affair for a NAT router. Inbound protection is via NAT, there is no outbound protection, and it can allow or block incoming ICMP, and lets you control NAT loopback.
The WRT54GL is internally simply a Linux computer, and Tomato (tracing its ancestry back to the original Linksys firmware) is also a Linux-based OS. As such, all routing and firewalling is done via IPTABLES. While the Tomato UI doesn't support more advanced firewall features (like selectively blocking outbound traffic), you can write IPTABLES firewall rules and paste them into the "Firewall" scripts page in the Tomato UI. These are firewall scripts that the router will run for you when it rebuilds the IPTABLES rules. | |
Cubytus
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| Well, glad to read this about the Buffalo. So far, I understand it's only *theoretically* supported, so i guess I will go with the WRT 54 GL.
As for the firewall, having everything on IPTABLES rules may seem very powerful, but I was never able to configure IPTABLES rules properly; they were too complex for me to understand/I was too stupid/lacked time to learn how a rule is written. Plus, when I tried that on my Ubuntu box through Firestarter, it screwed the whole system network functionalities.
But, if Tomato's default firewall interface sports the same kind of functionality as a standard router's one (say, allow incoming traffic on selected ports and redirect it to a given internal IP adress, block incoming port scans, have stealth mode as default), that would be good enough for me to start with.
As for your phone, you managed to find a decent plan for Internet access from a canadian carrier?? | |
Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
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| I'm a very satisfied Virgin Mobile customer.
My current prepaid plan is:
$20 - 200 anytime minutes
$10 - Unlimited local incoming minutes
$7 - Unlimited on-phone internet (I use the GMail and Opera Mini apps)
Plus the e911 fee and tax. | |
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