[clug] ADSL router recommendations?

Hal Ashburner hal at ashburner.info
Mon Mar 7 19:38:40 MST 2011


On 8/Mar/11 12:48 PM, jm wrote:
> My ADSL  router at home committed hara kiri a couple of weeks ago and 
> I've been running on my cold spare since. Let's just say it can't seem 
> to do more than one thing at a time and I'm looking to find a better 
> router to be main gateway. Looking around the market place seems to be 
> aimed squarely at the low end and the marketing departments seem to 
> have run a muck with the manufactures websites making it hard to 
> narrow down the field effectively. Confusion seems to be the marketing 
> method of choice.
>
> Anyway, what I'm aiming for is an ADSL 2+ router with
>
> IPv4
> IPv6 (we're getting it this time round aren't we?)
> PPPoA
> PPPoE
> Qos with priority queuing
>
> NAT
> reverse NAT
> Stateful packet inspection firewall
>
> 4 ethernet ports preferably 1Gpbs
> vlans
>
> SNMP management for monitoring
> web interface for management
> ssh cli interface for monitoring (nice to have not a must have)
> upgradable firmware
> Reliable!  Shouldn't need to be said.
>
I've had good experiences with the ASUS WL-600G.
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=220791#post220791
I compiled my own firmware so can't vouch for any of the binaries here.
Hal



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