router/firewall hardware advice

[Alex Maynard]

Thanks very much to everyone who wrote back with advice and links!!

Do you know if I lose a lot flexibility/customizability if I use syslink
hub as opposed to linux based CD or pc router?

On my SMC, it seemed to force a choice between fixed IP and pppoe.  On the
fixed IP you could input the ip address, but not the password info. On the
pppoe option you could input password info, but no IP info. My provider
needs both, so I couldn't connect with fixed IP. It sounds like this
won't be a problem with linksys? Can anyone confirm that? (I'd like to use
a linux based CD or PC, but ran into objections at home when I
brought up the idea of another computer running full time ("too noisy").)


Alex


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:38:14PM -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
> > Does any one have any suggestions for a newby on choice of router for
> > a small (3 pcs) home network with a fixed IP connection?
> >
> > If I configure a linux box as a router does it need two NIC cards?  Does
> > it have to be (should it be) a dedicated router?  Are there good
> > linux-friendly hub type routers that can be flexibly configured?
> > How are CD/floppy based routers?
>
> Well you normally require two NICs.  I only use one, since I haven't
> gotten around to tgetting my second card back from a friend that
> borrowed it a while ago.  I run PPPoE and running the PPPoE and local
> network traffic on the same NIC is working fine since PPPoE doesn't run
> IP packets so they don't really bother anything else on the network.
> Don't do this unless you can trust every machine on your local network
> of course.
>
> > Currently I have an SMC router but it doesn't seem to work too well with
> > fixed ip (or with linux -- I could only get to the interface using windows
> > explorer.) Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
>
> Well some companies just can't code HTML to save their lives. :)
>
> Or it is setup to only allow configuration from a specific port, mac or
> ip perhaps.
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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