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Strict 9 posted:I'm the IT guy at a small (15 person) office. We currently have two 15 port Netgear switches, Comcast cable, DSL backup, and a Fortinet router. You should visit the Mikrotik thread. edit: I hate to be that guy, but after reading the first post.... really? I know you mention Mikrotiks further down, but Mikrotiks do everything you could want out of DDWRT and Tomato, and unless you need to run custom software + crons it covers the base of OpenWRT too. And Ubiquiti? Mikrotiks do it much better as well. I know there's already a nice big Mikrotik thread here but it seems silly that people keep pushing Tomato, DDWRT, etc when they're always on horrible, flaky consumer hardware. They were wonderful firmwares 5 years ago when we didn't have much for options, but these days you can't beat the functionality and power of the Mikrotiks. /end rant. feld fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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American Jello posted:If mikrotik could make a functional web gui and a 'quick set up' type feature (dhcp client/server/nat/wifi already set up out of the box), I think they would blow all the other consumer stuff out of the water. It has always come with a default config, which I tend to just wipe off. Mikrotik comes with a default network of 192.168.88.0/24 and it's all setup for you to just plug in your modem into eth1.
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The.Big.Dirty.Emu posted:What's the best home VPN solution? All I'm really looking to be able to do is mount iSCSI shares when I'm away from home for time machine backups.  No. Do not. NO.
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Triikan posted:If both devices are gigabit, you shouldn't even need a crossover cable, as they should auto-negotiate the connection. Yup. Unless it's some horrible device that doesn't have MDI/MDIX
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Vargatron posted:I know this really isn't focused upon in the realm of home networking, but does anybody know of a good guide that explains subnetting? I didn't see an enterprise networking thread so I thought I'd start here. What exactly are you looking to know? Here's some easy multiple choice:
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Vargatron posted:I guess the math would be the main thing I'd like to understand. I understand that subnetting is used to divide a network into segments and to get around the impending IPv4 exhaustion that is upon us. I've got bits and pieces of it, but I'm failing to see the big picture I think. There are also other important things like creating broadcast domains. You don't want broadcast traffic flying across a giant flat network. That's a horrible mess.
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Boner Wad posted:Any thoughts on building a really tiny PC with a few Ethernet ports on the back? I've looked at Soekris boxes in the past and they seem way overpriced especially for the speed and compute power. My firewall is an Alix 2D3. Its CPU is aging but it runs OpenBSD like a champ and that weird AMD chip can offload some crypto. Running PFSense is a bit heavy but pure OpenBSD is great -- it should be able to pump near 100mbit through PF. Don't try to run anything heavy on it though. SNMP, Unbound, PF, DHCP, ... the basics work great and you get the power of OpenBSD 
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albear posted:How does it compare to a router loaded with DD-WRT or OpenWRT? Why does everyone compare everything on the market to DD-WRT or OpenWRT? Do you need full control of an embedded Linux distro? No, you don't need something like OpenWRT Do you want a mediocre web interface running on sub-par hardware? Fine, compare it to DDWRT -- Anyway, if this Watchguard is like any of the others (regular x86 hardware) you can just put pfSense on it if you don't like what they ship with it.  NOTinuyasha posted:DD-WRT is just a total disaster and nobody cares about the documentation.
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All repeaters effectively halve your bandwidth. Also, that WRT54GL is getting quite long in the tooth...
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