Re: small LAN ADSL router advice sought
Dean Hamstead <[email protected]>
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I advise you to not use your router as a mail server. Proxy functionality is a great idea. Most firewall distributions support it. And you can be sneaky and do it transparently. My experience has shown that in a small office (100 users) approx 60% of throughput is served from the cache. Which is very obviously a real world saving in not only internet costs, but potentially staff time and staff morale. A transparent proxy also allows you to ban urls rather than just ip ranges. Banning facebook, myspace, youtube, hotmail, twitter, ebay, commsec, asx etc are all great ways to remove time wasters or to only allow them in break hours. You can also ban *.exe, *.rar, *.zip files or whatever is needed to keep the internet costs down and staff time wastage to a minimum. Feel free to flame me if you disagree with blocking social networks etc in work places. IMO they are most likely not going to result in increased company revenues or decreased government spending. In any case try out one or more of the following, i use pfsense over ipcop. but have had good success in both. ipcop has a nice feature to cache windows updates indefinitely so they are downloaded only once (which is transparent, as opposed to a WSUS server) http://pfsense.org http://www.ipcop.org this looks good but i havent used it http://coyotelinux.com/ http://www.untangle.com http://www.endian.com Dean Voytek Eymont wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 2:39 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote: >> Do you have a list or requirements? >> >> >> Do you want something rolled up nicely (like smoothwall, pfsense etc?) >> or something really small but feature packed (like dd-wrt?) > > Dean, > thanks > > I'm contemplating to offer to connect these systems, at the moment, they > are largely stand alones, it's a pretty basic requirements on the LAN > side: email and www access, I'm looking at something robust and reliable > that will allow me to control the setup, if and when requirement grow > > I envisage having a local mail server and proxy server, what else should I > anticipate? > > -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html