mboy
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join:2001-04-13
Little Falls, NJ
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Re: SPI firewall?
I would steer clear of any of the Dlink SOHO routers. I have used a few and think they are JUNK. Not stable (software), not built very well. I do have a bunch of Dlink 24 port 10/100 switches I like tho.
I would highly reco a BUffalo WBR2-G54 wifi router, even does WPA-AES with the latest firmware. Has evwerything you want, even can block all wifi clients communicating with each other if you want, and has a client you can install on a PC that will pop up and give you access alerts.
Very stable router and can be found cheap when on sale (paid like $20 AR for mine).
I also have had much success deploying the SMC 2804wbr routers in a # of installs for family and clients. Father has 1 I set up, has 3 wifi clients on 24/7 and about 4-5 wired PCs on 24/7.
Both have SPI and I believe both have inbound/outbound filtering as well. |
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Anav
Sarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
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join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
1 edit | Hey Mboy can you test them for me.
Turn NAT off and see if the clients are still protected by the firewall. That is a better test than reading the marketing crap.
THe ZyXEL home routers P334W for example has an SPI firewall and the firewall does remain protecting when NAT is turned off. The buffalo makes good wifi but their core router features are nothing special, you would be better off to go with another router that does have SPI the
linksys wrt54GS.
MG, the P334W has a 225MIPS 175MHZ engine and IM sure the wrt54GS has the same or slightly higher guts, so I think your specs pertain to the wrt54G only. In any case from my knowledge yes, a working SPI firewall.
The test is throughput, both the P334W and Linksys wrt54GS have gobs of throughput with firewall turned off, easily 25Mbps plus............ With the firewall activated this drops to around 8Mbps. (price to pay for higher level packet inspection.)
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