radarman
join:2005-06-01
Odenton, MD
| reply to Rob
Re: Installing 3rd party firmware voids the warren
I came to the conclusion that Linksys is cr@p years ago, after running a small LAN through one in college. We had about 15 users on a Linksys wired router (can't remember the model number), which was patched into a switch. (we didn't use the on-board hub)
The blasted thing would work for a about a week before we had to go pull the plug and reboot it. At some point, we got one of those timers you can plug a lamp into and had it automatically reboot the router. Finally, we settled on an X10 interface where a local host could reboot it if it failed to ping a certain very stable host. We spent months figuring out how to reboot the router when we were all in class. Linksys replaced the router once, sent us beta firmware, you name it - but we finally gave up and settled on rebooting periodically.
When I graduated, and needed my own router, I built a FreeBSD box on an old Pentium III system, and ran ipfilter/ipnat on it - and I am still using it today. Uptime is great, and it is WAY faster than the Linksys.  |
