Hi Will
On 01.02.2011, at 16:44, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On 2011-02-01 15:29, Will van Gulik wrote:
Heya people,
Currently maintaining many customers network offices with ADSLs connections, generaly bridging the router on site and doing all my routing on a *nix box.
In this design, I'm looking for some efficient, low price, reliable hardware that would do only the bridge work.
The Netopia VDSL[1] thingies that Swisscom gives along with the VDSL offer works like a charm over here. I just disabled the wireless on it (as I could not manage it and hey, that is not the way to do it) and put it into bridge mode and indeed have a Linux box behind it for IPv4 NAT and IPv6 tunneling, nice clean 1480 path to the PoP ;)
Otherwise you might want to look at the new AVM 7570 box, that one can even do IPv6 (with some quirks like no static routing yet but it does work ;) even supports TIC+heartbeat.
For that matter, just cut down the list to everything that does support IPv6 and skip the rest as that is then not a good investment.
[1] http://www.netopia.com/equipment/products/miavo/index.html
I can recommend hardware from PC Engines [2] on where you can run different operating systems on a CompactFlash card. There are also a few naked os (Debian, CentOS) images or prepared router/firewall images linked on the site, such as m0n0wall [3] or pfSense [4].
[2] http://www.pcengines.ch/ [3] http://m0n0.ch/wall/ [4] http://www.pfsense.org/
Cheers, Roger