Anyone recommend a good cheapish switch/router

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with an easy to configure firewall?

 

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Linksys wrt54g. Flash it with hyperwrt, dd-wrt or open-wrt and you have a 500 quid router/fw for 50 quid

 

cool, thanks for that.

just bought one for £36

 

Ooooh - ****. I probably should have said that only some versions of it can be flashed... Oh well - even without the third-party firmware they're still good little boxes.

 

I'll check it out when it arrives.

 

Cool

Here's a list of flashable versions, together with a handy way of telling via the serial number whether your device can be flashed

 

cool repped

From my order reciept my version is a v6 and supports DD-WRT so from what I can see I should be able to flash it.

 

Cool beans!

 

Hey zeb, why is that? What is the difference?

 

As one example, it lets you terminate OpenVPNs and PPTP VPNs on you linksys WRT router.

 

Which one would you recommend zeb?

I just managed to pick myself up a cheap wrt54g v2.0 and to my surprise it already had been flashed with dd-wrt v23 sp3 mini (2007 version). Is it worth upgrading to a more recent version or changing altogether to one of the others?

 

I flashed mine with the latest version and its the dogs bollocks. I decided as a test to terminate my software firewall and this is with 3 systems connected to the router and use shields up to see if it was vunerable.

To put it in laymans terms nothing is getting through this ****er

Although I have still reactivated my software firewall.