[fw-wiz] Home/SOHO "Firewall" Routers

From: Jim Seymour (jseymour_at_linxnet.com)
Date: 06/09/04

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Date: Wed,  9 Jun 2004 12:16:05 -0400 (EDT)

    Hi Wizzards,

    We've recently put a secured mailserver outside the firewall to give
    roaming (laptop-using) employees speedier access to their email from
    outside the company facilities. Where they have home broadband
    connections, we'd like to have them install a router/switch (commonly
    referred-to as a "broadband modem router") that does NAT and packet
    filtering. I've identified four likely candidates and am wondering
    if anybody on the list has had any experiences with any of these
    devices and would care to render an opinion. The candidate products
    are (so far):

        . LinkSys BEFSX41
        . D-Link DI-804HV
        . Netopia 3386-ENT
        . SMC 7004VBR

    The most important characteristics would be, of course, how good are
    their security records, degree of configurability (ingress/egress
    packet filtering) and reliability (saw one complaint about one of
    them that, when some of the advanced filtering stuff was activated,
    it crashed regularly). Also of interest are ease of interfacing with
    a variety of residential broadband service types (DHCP, PPPoE),
    performance (throughput), and any experiences with the manufacturer's
    technical support department.

    I've searched the web extensively, and haven't been able to find any
    kind of comprehensive independent technical evaluations of any of
    these products, or their predecessors.

    Please email responses directly to me--I'll summarize to the list.

    Thanks,
    Jim
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