[CVALE] My next big step with Linux...

[Patrick Bennett]

Linux Wi-Fi: Supercharge a Buffalo
May 8, 2007
By Carla Schroder 
<http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/feedback.php/http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3676506>
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3676506

     -Patrick

Patrick Bennett wrote:
> Having gone through lots and lots of the off-the-shelf routers available 
> in the sub-$150 range, I once again highly recommend you get the Buffalo 
> WHR-G54S and re-flash it with the open source dd-wrt firmware.  This 
> setup has been rock solid for me in many locations, almost always yields 
> a better wireless signal and better overall performance, and has lots 
> and lots of nifty features not found in standard manufacturer's firmware.
>
> I have had particularly bad luck with linksys brand routers being buggy 
> and needing contant reboots, and netgear brand routers being 
> proprietary.  DLink brand routers I've always gotten decent and stable 
> performance from, but their firmware doesn't have half the features of 
> dd-wrt and is not compatible with it.
>
>     -Patrick
>
>
> Jason Roysdon wrote:
>   
>> NAT - Network Address Translation, but let's start with why you need it:
>>
>> I didn't give you all the details: The linksys will act as a DHCP server
>> ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhcp ) and assign, by default, a private
>> address (RFC1918 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html ) in the
>> 192.168.1.X range.  These addresses don't work on the internet, so you
>> need to have them NAT'd.
>>
>> NAT (RFC1631 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1631.html ) takes an IP Address
>> and Translates it into another address.  A one-to-one NAT would take a
>> single IP address and NAT every single port to the exact port of the
>> NAT'd IP.  Most cheap routers don't support this, but then you usually
>> only have one public IP address for SOHO users.
>>
>> So that's the next point: since you only have one public (internet
>> routable) IP address, but more than one PC, you need NAT.  PNAT, PAT or
>> NAT overload as some routers call it, will allow you to take one public
>> IP address and allow many private IPs to do Port (Network) Address
>> Translation and share that same public IP address as far as the outside
>> world sees your traffic origination (for the most part).
>>
>> PPPoE (RFC2516 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2516.html ) is what most DSL
>> providers (and some cable) require you to use so they can get
>> authentication information before they allow you on their network.
>> Usually you run it as some extra software on your PC.  With all modern
>> routers, you can have the router do the PPPoE authentication and not run
>> any software on your PC.
>>
>> As I was saying, you could have a home PC do DHCP, NAT, PPPoE, but it's
>> rather hard to get each going, and these days with home routers to
>> cheap, more hassle than it's worth.
>>   
>>     
>
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