[Asterisk-Users] Router Recommendations Please

[Yiannis Costopoulos]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Michael
> Graves
> Sent: 19 January 2005 14:06
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Router Recommendations Please
> 
> 
> 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
> 

I vote m0n0wall too. It does what you expect it to do and more!

Yiannis.