[Leaplist] advice on wifi router please

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

Well, among other things, a separate box does the job much better.

DHCP - impossible to set NTP, TFTP, and similar settings under one of
those "routers". Sure, it gives you an address... and that's it. It
doesn't tell your DHCP client where to find the NTP server, won't tell it
where it can find a kernel to load over the ethernet (diskless machines,
utilizing TFTP), and quite a few similar problems.

NAT - What if you wanted to do QOS? Guarantee a certain service has X
amount of bandwidth no matter what else is going on on the network? One of
those "routers" simply won't support that.

Firewall - Give me a break... these things offer a very basic firewall.
They are getting better, but they still aren't all the advanced. I have
yet to see a "stateful" firewall on one of these things.

DNS - Frankly, just too easy to knock offline. Either set your own up
(highly recommended if you have a dedicated machine somewhere) or point to
something outside your network. I haven't found a "router" that I really
trust the DNS service on.
-- 
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On Tue, July 17, 2007 10:25 am, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:08, Derek Konigsberg wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Phil Barnett wrote:
>> > Fortunately, we are not average people. ;-)
>>
>> And I'm definitely not average, in that I outright *refuse* to use a
>> "wireless router."  I'd rather just get a "wireless access point," and
>> leave the routing and/or NAT functions to a totally separate box.
>
> Why?
>
> SteveT
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