[adsl] Looking for ADSL VPN Router recommendations

[Volker Kuhlmann]

> At the risk of sounding biased, why not put low to mid range linux boxes 
> in as firewall / VPN managers / routers.
> 
> PII 400 / 64Mb RAM / 10Gb disks with your favourite distribution ... or 
> possibly ipcop ... do marvellously.

A Linux distribution has the downside of needing a huge amount of time
to set up when compared to a ready-to-roll firewall application which
has its own Linux/BSD included. I advise against ipcop for anything
exceeding home use because of a lacking feature set (no outbound
filtering), confusing BUI, and instability (add-ons segfault, a
/dev/null for a security appliance as far as I am concerned). pfsense is
*much* niftier but doing everything means it's more difficult to set up.
Even Endian beats ipcop in design. Those are the 3 choices I could find
(let me know if I missed any pls). Any medium/low PC will do, and you
still need an adsl modem.

The advantage of a dedicated all-in-one hardware box is small size and
low power consumption, but you're subjecting yourself to the whims of
its firmware and there are basically no security updates available. I
don't believe these boxes never have bugs.

Volker

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