OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network

[Neil Cherry]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:47:05AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

>>> wireless router was on sale, so I got it. I didn't get it
>>> to use it as a router, but as a firewall. I only keep one
>>> machine plugged into it. I'd prefer not to have a wireless
>>> router at all.
>>
>> Speaking about consumer firewall bashing -- most of them
>> are truly broken. However, for those of them which are based
>> on Linux there's always a chance of using an alternative firmware
> 
> Eh? Alternative firmware? Interesting.

You can use something like a Netgear WGT634U or WGT624 (<$40 US
w/shipping, probably not new) with OpenWRT, HyperWRT, DD-WRT.
Of course there's the Linksys WRT family and the same software.
There are many other routers too that can use the above software.

There is one other vendor of 3rd party software and it's not that
I don't know about them but rather I disagree with their opinions
and that is why I don't mention them here. That's all I have to
say on that subject.

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