What is the very best quality BB modem/router?

> Cost isn't an issue, given the lack of tech support on just about
> everything, and the time wasted.

Darytek kit is very good but like most others the tech support is not as
good. Well please with my 2600 that works round the cloak and has never
failed.

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:36:00 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
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>> Cost isn't an issue, given the lack of tech support on just about
>> everything, and the time wasted.
>
>Darytek kit is very good but like most others the tech support is not as
>good. Well please with my 2600 that works round the cloak and has never
>failed.

Seconded - there are plenty of users here or the Draytek support forum
to assist with problems.

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Too many problems with Linksys / D-link / Netgear it seems.

Cisco stuff is normally OK - if one can find an expert to configure
them! I run a couple of 803 routers here (ISDN dial-up) which are
100.000% reliable, but I did have to find an expert to generate the
complicated access lists.

Cost isn't an issue, given the lack of tech support on just about
everything, and the time wasted.


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I must write out 100 times Draytek!

"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I must write out 100 times Draytek!
>

Do you mean e.g.


http://www.draytek.com/english/produ...vigor2900g.php

with a separate modem, but which one? The only one they list is a USB
one.

The VPN function looks interesting, because I need a sort of VPN
between home and the office. Presently I do it with PC Anywhere, and
the Cisco routers have a 2nd dialler profile which (when PCA hits a
certain IP) causes a dial-up (ISDN) connection to be established. It
works both ways, is secure and at 64k very slow. Over BB it would need
a fixed IP at both ends but I will have that.


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The Draytek range at www.draytek.co.uk has various models and most of them
use a normal NIC connection to the PC. AFAIK the USB port on the 2900 is
only used for the print server.

"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>The Draytek range at www.draytek.co.uk has various models and most of them
>use a normal NIC connection to the PC. AFAIK the USB port on the 2900 is
>only used for the print server.

I've ordered the 2600gi; it looks very good. In fact it looks "too
good" - looking at the astonishing feature set, if the megabytes of
software which must be inside the box contain less than hundreds of
bugs, I will be amazed!

In fact I wonder why people pay £1000 for firewalls from people like
Cisco. I suppose with Cisco you can do very detailed config, using
timed access lists and such...

Thank you all for the suggestions.


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> "Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>The Draytek range at www.draytek.co.uk has various models and most of them
>>use a normal NIC connection to the PC. AFAIK the USB port on the 2900 is
>>only used for the print server.
>
> I've ordered the 2600gi; it looks very good. In fact it looks "too
> good" - looking at the astonishing feature set, if the megabytes of
> software which must be inside the box contain less than hundreds of
> bugs, I will be amazed!
>
> In fact I wonder why people pay £1000 for firewalls from people like
> Cisco. I suppose with Cisco you can do very detailed config, using
> timed access lists and such...
>
>
You can do this too with the Draytek.

I have a 2600W ISDN/ADSL and am very very happy. Even BT Broadband voice
works through it.

> I've ordered the 2600gi; it looks very good. In fact it looks "too
> good" - looking at the astonishing feature set, if the megabytes of
> software which must be inside the box contain less than hundreds of
> bugs, I will be amazed!

I am sure you will be impressed. The basic configuration is straightforward
and it is still very customisable if you need to. The only thing that
surpised me was that the firewall was not enabled by default but it took
only a minute or two set up.

>
> In fact I wonder why people pay £1000 for firewalls from people like
> Cisco. I suppose with Cisco you can do very detailed config, using
> timed access lists and such...

The name perhaps?

"Peter Crosland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> In fact I wonder why people pay £1000 for firewalls from people like
>> Cisco. I suppose with Cisco you can do very detailed config, using
>> timed access lists and such...
>
>The name perhaps?

In your opinion, what equipment would I need to run an in-house
www/email/ftp/dns server?

This is not a high profile corporate site which somebody is going to
have a go at, but some prankster just might, looking for customer
emails containing credit card numbers or whatever. So it has to be
very secure. The initial proposal was a Pix firewall, then the server,
then another Pix firewall and the office LAN behind that. So the
server sits in an DMZ. This appears to be a standard setup.

In fact there is no need for the office LAN to have any connection to
the server (thus eliminating the 2nd Pix). Any server admin can be
done as it would be done remotely: over the internet, telnet over SSL.
The only reason we would like there to be a piece of wire is because
we want to route all outgoing emails via the email server, where their
To: headers can be scanned for whitelist compilation purposes.

The present limit of my expertise is setting up an 803 ISDN router
with an access list which stops Blaster attacks keeping the line up
For the above, I was going to get somebody in; not to get it working
but to make sure it is really done right.

The office LAN will get its internet access via something like a
Draytek 2600 - NAT itself should be secure enough for simple www
browsing??


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