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On 03/02/2012 03:00 AM, jean durandt wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" style=""><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span
class="hps">thank you</span> <span class="hps">for your</span>
<span class="hps">response</span><span>.<br>
<br>
<br>
</span> <span class="hps">goal</span><span>:</span> <span
class="hps">not having a</span> <span class="hps">pc</span>
<span class="hps">on.</span> <span class="hps">So</span>
<span class="hps">a dedicated router</span><span>.</span>
<span class="hps"><br>
<br>
But</span><span>, given</span> <span class="hps">the
experience gained,</span> <span class="hps">I</span> <span
class="hps">do not think</span> <span class="hps">the
brand</span> <span class="hps">is the best</span> <span
class="hps">cisco</span> <span class="hps">as the
reliability of</span> <span class="hps">machines tested</span>
<span class="hps">surprises</span><span>: freeze</span> <span
class="hps">or</span> <span class="hps">overheat</span>
<span class="hps">inbconsidérée</span><span>.</span> <span
class="hps">But I</span> <span class="hps">could be
wrong</span><span>.<br>
<br>
</span> <span class="hps">to:</span> <span class="hps">manage
a set of</span> <span class="hps">machines</span> <span
class="hps atn">(</span><span>managing</span> <span
class="hps">fire, flood</span><span>,</span> <span
class="hps">security</span> <span class="hps">for
remote sites</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">the</span>
<span class="hps">electricity</span> <span class="hps">is
solar</span> <span class="hps">in the absence</span> <span
class="hps">of people</span><span>.</span> <span
class="hps">A generator</span> <span class="hps">in
case of</span> <span class="hps">human presence</span><span>.</span><span>)</span><br>
<span class="hps">Currently</span> <span class="hps">there
are</span> <span class="hps">SIX</span> <span
class="hps">machines connected</span> <span class="hps">to
the ADSL modem</span><span>.</span><br>
<span class="hps">We want to put</span> <span class="hps">these
machines</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span
class="hps">vpn</span> <span class="hps">client through</span>
<span class="hps">a router</span> <span class="hps">vpn</span>
<span class="hps">client.</span><br>
<span class="hps">This</span> <span class="hps">avoids
having to</span> <span class="hps">configure</span> <span
class="hps">each machine</span> <span class="hps">in
turn.</span><br>
<span class="hps">The other advantage is</span> <span
class="hps">that if we</span> <span class="hps">can
have a</span> <span class="hps">powerful</span> <span
class="hps">router</span><span>, we can</span> <span
class="hps">separate the</span> <span class="hps">SSID</span>
<span class="hps">connections</span> <span class="hps">from
each other</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span
class="hps">virtual SSIDs</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>I</span>
<span class="hps">am</span> <span class="hps">here as an
example</span> <span class="hps atn">DD-</span><span>WRT</span><span>)</span><span>.</span><br>
<br>
<span class="hps">I</span><span>'m listening</span> <span
class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">all</span> <span
class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">goes back</span>
<span class="hps">informaition</span><span>.</span> <span
class="hps"><br>
With</span> <span class="hps">my thanks to all</span><span>.</span><br>
<br>
<br>
<span class="hps">the translation</span> <span
class="hps">is done by</span> <span class="hps">Google</span><span>.</span></span></div>
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If your willing to spend a little more money there are high quality
boxes that can run linux out of flash such as this: <a
href="http://www.acrosser.com/products/detail_id_427.html">http://www.acrosser.com/products/detail_id_427.html</a>
This box consumes minimal power. It's not blindingly fast, so I
wouldn't recommend for lots of vpn user or greater than 10mb
Internet connection but it is enterprise quality, much better than
the little linksys box. If you google around, I believe I've seen
web sites that sell a wide range of boxes like this in Europe.
Boxes with the atom processor will be quite a bit faster than this
one, though the via eden box actually has hardware acceleration for
openvpn (there are openvpn config options to enable it).<br>
<br>
Installing ubuntu or other firewall distribution on these boxes is
relatively straightforward. I just plugged in a usb dvd/cdrom drive
and booted the installation disk.<br>
<br>
If you still want to play with cheap boxes, engenius might be a
little better than cisco/linksys.<br>
<br>
Nataraj<br>
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