RE: [FW1] Sonicwall VPN FYI - Sweet Cheap little VPN

["Mark Decker" <mdecker@FW1-NOSPAMrainfinity.com>]

Ian,

I use a $189 NetGear 314 dual ethernet router at home.  You can hook it
up to an external DSL or cable modem (such as the Alcatel 1000 Pac Bell
provides).  Has a built-in 4-port switch, does NAT, port forwarding,
nice brower-based or CLI interface, and can even get its public IP
address dynamically.  Not as full featured as a Cisco, but much
cheaper/easier and great for a home LAN.  Cisco does make a Pac Bell
(Alcatel DSLAM) compatible DSL router, the 1400 series, but it's
overkill for home use.

HTH,

Mark L. Decker
Rainfinity
mdecker@rainfinity.com
www.rainfinity.com> One other question for you CA Pac Bell DSL users though; what
> brands of
> small cheap routers that do NAT (for NAT'ing a small home net
> to 1 public
> IP) that work with Pac Bell's DSL that also work with SR has
> anyone used? I
> got a Cisco 675 through work and spent hours trying to get
> the thing working
> at home, but no dice; the WAN interface just would not come
> up. Finally I
> managed to speak with someone at Cisco about it (Pac Bell was
> of course less
> than useless on this), and they said that it can only be used
> with an ISP
> that has Cisco DSLAM's downstream. Thus, there was no way the
> 675 would work
> with Pac Bell.
>
> Anyone? I don't want to ask Pac Bell because I'm sure they're
> incompetent,
> but I'm hoping I'll hear from someone else on who's actually
> used something
> successfully here. The Linksys is quite cheap...
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Ian
>



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