[From nobody Sat Jul 18 09:12:01 2009 X-Envelope-From: <rick_knight@rlknight.com> X-Envelope-To: <cvale@cvale.org> Received: from [172.16.88.25] (knight-fw.rlknight.com [172.16.88.2]) by mail.rlknight.com(8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n6IGEEs9009542 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:14:14 -0700 (envelope-from <rick_knight@rlknight.com> Message-ID: <4A61F44D.1060604@rlknight.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:11:57 -0700 From: Rick Knight <rick_knight@rlknight.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cvale@cvale.org Subject: Re: [CVALE] Router Recommendation References: <4A5B7DB1.2080601@rlknight.com> <4A5B859B.8090701@bennettbungalow.com> <F62DA406-355D-4A7C-B68A-C6596CD88C29@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F62DA406-355D-4A7C-B68A-C6596CD88C29@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks everyone for the recommendation. My Buffalo WHR-HP-54G with DD-WRT pre-flashed arrived yesterday and I set it up last night. It works beautifully. Mail is arriving at my server with the headers intact so grey-listing is working and my spam is WAY down. Most important, I realized my mail server had become an open relay. The new router took care of that as well. Thanks again, Rick Ian Sterling wrote: > 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@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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cvale mailing list >>> cvale@lists.fire2wire.com >>> http://lists.fire2wire.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/cvale >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> cvale mailing list >> cvale@lists.fire2wire.com >> http://lists.fire2wire.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/cvale >> > > _______________________________________________ > cvale mailing list > cvale@lists.fire2wire.com > http://lists.fire2wire.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/cvale > ]