[CVALE] Router Recommendation

[Ian Sterling]

I will second the nomination for DD-WRT. I've Bren using it for nearly  
two years now and love the hell out of it.

Only thing for me is that I'm considering building a low-power box to  
put pFSense on and use that as a router.  There are things I want that  
ddwrt won't do like nat to different internal IPs from the same  
external address bases on the incing hostname.

Other than that, I love my WRT54GL + DD-WRT.

--Ian...

On Jul 13, 2009, at 12:06, Patrick Bennett  
<stnick at bennettbungalow.com> wrote:

> Rick, I *think* a linksys wrtg5gl or buffalo whr54g router re-flashed
> with dd-wrt firmware will do what you want.  You should check out the
> dd-wrt site (http://www.dd-wrt.com) for specific information about the
> capabilities you're asking about.  In my own experience, these
> re-flashed routers run way better and way more stable than they do off
> the shelf and have tons more features to boot.
>
> My favorite hardware to use with dd-wrt is this one:
> http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=844208
>
>    -Patrick
>
>
> Rick Knight wrote:
>> I have been using a slackware box with IPtables as my router,  
>> firewall
>> and PPPoE connector for some time now, but due to the rising cost of
>> energy, a desire to be a bit more "green" and the aging of the  
>> server, I
>> want to drop the PC in favor of a wireless router. I have a ZyXel  
>> P-330W
>> wireless router that works well except for email. I run my own mail
>> server behind my firewall. Using the slackware box, smtp traffic  
>> arrived
>> at the mail server with the headers intact. Using the router, I  
>> have to
>> port forward traffic to the mail server. This modifies the header so
>> that all mail appears to come from my firewall. That plays heck with
>> milter-grreylist. So, I need an inexpensive wireless router that will
>> allow smtp port 25 traffic to be NAT'd to the mail server and still  
>> let
>> me port forward other services like HTTP, HTTPS and FTP as well as
>> custom services like Readerware or VNC and will also manage the PPPoE
>> connection to my DSL modem. Can anyone recommend such a beast?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
>>
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