[Asterisk-Users] Router Recommendations Please

[Michael Graves]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:01:51 -0600, rsenykoff at harrislogic.com wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>We've discovered that VoIP (IAX2) + Citrix + Video is pegging the measly
>CPU on the Netopia router our ISP provided. We've got 3Mb/3Mb and will
>increase to 4/4 next year.
>
>The Netopia simply breaks out our WAN IPs, and we've got a switch hooked up
>to it on the inside (Actually I've got a QoS box in-between).
>
>-------------
>| Internet  |
>|  on Cat5  |
>-------------
>     |
>-------------
>| Netopia   |
>-------------
>     |
>-------------
>| QoS Bridge |
>--------------
>     |
>----------------------
>| switch for WAN IPs |
>----------------------
>  |              |  |
>--------------
>| LAN Switch |
>--------------
>  |  |  |  |
>
>
>Any recommendations on something that isn't as pricey as Cisco? I'm in
>discussions about us building Linux units down the line, but for now we
>need something we can buy. Cisco is too expensive for us.
>

m0n0wall is my favorite.

web site http://m0n0.ch/wall/

Review on Tom's Networking 
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-161-ProdID-MONOWALL.php

Open source running on either a plain vanilla PC or a Soekris embedded
platform. 

Michael

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