Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

You might want to look into Mikrotik's offering. They are not only
inexpensive, but they are extremely reliable. Many Internet cafés in
my country use Mikrotik: they put the device in an outdoor box, and
stuck it on the pole bearing the wireless antennae connecting the café
to the ISP. The boxes have endured untold days of heat and cold, and
nearly all of them survived to this day (barring some who got hit
directly by lightning).

The documentation is widely available on the 'net, the CLI is much
more intuitive than Cisco IOS, and their features are on a par with
the most expensive IOS variant.

Rgds,


On 2011-05-29, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my
> own question...
>
> I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that has decent and SIMPLE
> way to add VLANs (I'm not a CISCO guy and don't want to have to become
> one)...
>
> Specifically, I want to have one VLAN that my wireless access points are
> plugged into, to provide ONLY internet access, and then a separate VLAN
> for my internal network...
>
> This is to protect my internal net from any potentially infected
> machines that are on the wireless access points (I routinely work on
> infected computers for friends/family, so, I need internet access, but
> want them isolated from my internal network).
>
> Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers
> support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, Tomato, DD-WRT
> or OpenWRT)?
>
> Looking forward to any suggestions/ideas...
>
>


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