Heya people,
Currently maintaining many customers network offices with ADSLs connections, generaly bridging the router on site and doing all my routing on a *nix box.
In this design, I'm looking for some efficient, low price, reliable hardware that would do only the bridge work.
I've used various hardware those days, like zyxel, linksys, even tried tp-link.
Does anyone have any insight about that ?
Thanks !
Will - PorCus
On 2011-02-01 15:29, Will van Gulik wrote:
Heya people,
Currently maintaining many customers network offices with ADSLs connections, generaly bridging the router on site and doing all my routing on a *nix box.
In this design, I'm looking for some efficient, low price, reliable hardware that would do only the bridge work.
The Netopia VDSL[1] thingies that Swisscom gives along with the VDSL offer works like a charm over here. I just disabled the wireless on it (as I could not manage it and hey, that is not the way to do it) and put it into bridge mode and indeed have a Linux box behind it for IPv4 NAT and IPv6 tunneling, nice clean 1480 path to the PoP ;)
Otherwise you might want to look at the new AVM 7570 box, that one can even do IPv6 (with some quirks like no static routing yet but it does work ;) even supports TIC+heartbeat.
For that matter, just cut down the list to everything that does support IPv6 and skip the rest as that is then not a good investment.
[1] http://www.netopia.com/equipment/products/miavo/index.html
Greets, Jeroen
Hi Will
On 01.02.2011, at 16:44, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On 2011-02-01 15:29, Will van Gulik wrote:
Heya people,
Currently maintaining many customers network offices with ADSLs connections, generaly bridging the router on site and doing all my routing on a *nix box.
In this design, I'm looking for some efficient, low price, reliable hardware that would do only the bridge work.
The Netopia VDSL[1] thingies that Swisscom gives along with the VDSL offer works like a charm over here. I just disabled the wireless on it (as I could not manage it and hey, that is not the way to do it) and put it into bridge mode and indeed have a Linux box behind it for IPv4 NAT and IPv6 tunneling, nice clean 1480 path to the PoP ;)
Otherwise you might want to look at the new AVM 7570 box, that one can even do IPv6 (with some quirks like no static routing yet but it does work ;) even supports TIC+heartbeat.
For that matter, just cut down the list to everything that does support IPv6 and skip the rest as that is then not a good investment.
[1] http://www.netopia.com/equipment/products/miavo/index.html
I can recommend hardware from PC Engines [2] on where you can run different operating systems on a CompactFlash card. There are also a few naked os (Debian, CentOS) images or prepared router/firewall images linked on the site, such as m0n0wall [3] or pfSense [4].
[2] http://www.pcengines.ch/ [3] http://m0n0.ch/wall/ [4] http://www.pfsense.org/
Cheers, Roger
Jeroen, as I'm doing my v6 on a router behind the bridge, I really don't care about what feature as the bridge, beside bridging ;)
Roger, I'm quite fan of pcengines already, however they don't do the interconnection with the incombent (isp) supporting *dsl interaction. I'm really interested on the device at the front of it.
W.
On 2/1/11 8:23 PM, Roger Blum wrote:
Hi Will
On 01.02.2011, at 16:44, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On 2011-02-01 15:29, Will van Gulik wrote:
Heya people,
Currently maintaining many customers network offices with ADSLs connections, generaly bridging the router on site and doing all my routing on a *nix box.
In this design, I'm looking for some efficient, low price, reliable hardware that would do only the bridge work.
The Netopia VDSL[1] thingies that Swisscom gives along with the VDSL offer works like a charm over here. I just disabled the wireless on it (as I could not manage it and hey, that is not the way to do it) and put it into bridge mode and indeed have a Linux box behind it for IPv4 NAT and IPv6 tunneling, nice clean 1480 path to the PoP ;)
Otherwise you might want to look at the new AVM 7570 box, that one can even do IPv6 (with some quirks like no static routing yet but it does work ;) even supports TIC+heartbeat.
For that matter, just cut down the list to everything that does support IPv6 and skip the rest as that is then not a good investment.
[1] http://www.netopia.com/equipment/products/miavo/index.html
I can recommend hardware from PC Engines [2] on where you can run different operating systems on a CompactFlash card. There are also a few naked os (Debian, CentOS) images or prepared router/firewall images linked on the site, such as m0n0wall [3] or pfSense [4].
[2] http://www.pcengines.ch/ [3] http://m0n0.ch/wall/ [4] http://www.pfsense.org/
Cheers, Roger
For VDSL the ZyXEL P-871M is ideal for bridging: it can only bridge ! So no headaches about how to enable the bridging mode or endless fiddling through menus.
Too bad that Zyxel do not applies the same concept for ADSL...
Daniele
-----Original Message----- From: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of Will van Gulik Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:41 AM To: swinog@swinog.ch Subject: Re: [swinog] Efficient ADSL2 Bridges nowdays
Jeroen, as I'm doing my v6 on a router behind the bridge, I really don't care about what feature as the bridge, beside bridging ;)
Roger, I'm quite fan of pcengines already, however they don't do the interconnection with the incombent (isp) supporting *dsl interaction. I'm really interested on the device at the front of it.
W.
On 2/1/11 8:23 PM, Roger Blum wrote:
Hi Will
On 01.02.2011, at 16:44, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On 2011-02-01 15:29, Will van Gulik wrote:
Heya people,
Currently maintaining many customers network offices with ADSLs connections, generaly bridging the router on site and doing all my routing on a *nix box.
In this design, I'm looking for some efficient, low price, reliable hardware that would do only the bridge work.
The Netopia VDSL[1] thingies that Swisscom gives along with the VDSL offer works like a charm over here. I just disabled the wireless on it (as I could not manage it and hey, that is not the way to do it) and put it into bridge mode and indeed have a Linux box behind it for IPv4 NAT and IPv6 tunneling, nice clean 1480 path to the PoP ;)
Otherwise you might want to look at the new AVM 7570 box, that one can even do IPv6 (with some quirks like no static routing yet but it does work ;) even supports TIC+heartbeat.
For that matter, just cut down the list to everything that does support IPv6 and skip the rest as that is then not a good investment.
[1] http://www.netopia.com/equipment/products/miavo/index.html
I can recommend hardware from PC Engines [2] on where you can run different operating systems on a CompactFlash card. There are also a few naked os (Debian, CentOS) images or prepared router/firewall images linked on the site, such as m0n0wall [3] or pfSense [4].
[2] http://www.pcengines.ch/ [3] http://m0n0.ch/wall/ [4] http://www.pfsense.org/
Cheers, Roger
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:41:21 +0100 Will van Gulik mailing-porcus@porcus.ch wrote:
Jeroen, as I'm doing my v6 on a router behind the bridge, I really don't care about what feature as the bridge, beside bridging ;)
Roger, I'm quite fan of pcengines already, however they don't do the interconnection with the incombent (isp) supporting *dsl interaction. I'm really interested on the device at the front of it.
I had a similar problem like you and decided that it is easier if i have all together in one box. Thus i got myself a Solos ADSL Card from Traverse. They work like a charm in Linux. I guess the support for *BSD is equally good. You can get those in europe from kd85.com.
HTH
Attila Kinali
Attila Kinali wrote:
I had a similar problem like you and decided that it is easier if i have all together in one box. Thus i got myself a Solos ADSL Card from Traverse. They work like a charm in Linux. I guess the support for *BSD is equally good. You can get those in europe from kd85.com.
Very nice - doesn't look like they do a VDSL version too?
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:57:23 +0100 Per Jessen per.jessen@enidan.ch wrote:
Attila Kinali wrote:
I had a similar problem like you and decided that it is easier if i have all together in one box. Thus i got myself a Solos ADSL Card from Traverse. They work like a charm in Linux. I guess the support for *BSD is equally good. You can get those in europe from kd85.com.
Very nice - doesn't look like they do a VDSL version too?
I don't know. Drop Traverse a mail, they usually respond quite fast and are very friendly.
Attila Kinali
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