{"id":464,"date":"2009-05-25T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=464"},"modified":"2010-02-08T21:34:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:34:06","slug":"domestic-routers-do-they-all-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Routers &#8211; Do They All Suck ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since upgrading my ADSL limk to the Internet, I have been hunting for a decent router to do the job. And have failed completely.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I don&#8217;t think my requirements are that extreme :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dual WAN links &#8211; ADSL and Ethernet (not to be used simultaneously; just allowing users to switch between different providers).<\/li>\n<li>8 port gigabit switch<\/li>\n<li>802.11n wireless<\/li>\n<li>Reasonably robust construction including an integrated power unit.<\/li>\n<li><em>Reliability;<\/em> capable of running 24&#215;7<\/li>\n<li>A decent command line interface connected to via ssh with the ability to upload an ssh key.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to save and load the configuration over tftp so the configuration can be kept in a subversion repository.<\/li>\n<li>A <em>simple<\/em> web interface.<\/li>\n<li>A decent on\/off switch on the front. Actually I don&#8217;t need this myself, but I can think of a few people who would very much like them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone know of something like this ?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it should be open source to allow third-parties to &#8220;fix&#8221; the firmware along the lines of what DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato all do for certain routers. In fact the manufacturers could do a lot worse than to contract someone to add their routers to the list of routers these alternative firmwares support and ship their produce with that firmware.<\/p>\n<p>Just as long as certain people in the alternative firmware world get over the weird notion that &#8220;routers&#8221; does not include anything that allows connection to an ADSL WAN link. Routers are <em>not<\/em> limited to just shuffling packets between different Ethernet segments. In fact if you look at a list of interface modules for a Cisco 7600 router (definitely not &#8220;domestic&#8221;), the Ethernet modules are outnumbered by other network interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since upgrading my ADSL limk to the Internet, I have been hunting for a decent router to do the job. And have failed completely. 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