Hello All, I've finally become so frustrated with my current router that I'm seeking alternatives. I presently use a Linksys BEFSR81 which was chosen for its QoS capability. However, that device quite routinely loses WAN<>LAN connectivity requiring a reboot. Sometimes it goes day or weeks just fine, sometimes I have to reboot it 4 times a day. Readingwwwbroadbandreports.com's VOIP forum I see that this is a known problem with this device. Linksys will provide no assistance whatsoever. Also at the broadband Reports VOIP forum I found a post from someone who had started using the m0nowall firewall with his Vonage service. m0nowall looks interesting as it boots from CD and stores its setup files on floppy. I can even be run on a Soerkis Engineering embedded PC booting from compact flash. It appears to provide "traffic shaping" which I'm given to understand is like the Linksys QoS controls. Does anyone here have experience with this or similar small Linux firewall/router apps? Care to comment? FWIW, my home office has three SNOM 200s, a Sipura-2000, Asterisk with outbound calling via VoicePulse Connect, 4 incomming PSTNs. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc. mgraves@mstvp.com "Kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight" - Bruce Cockburn ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704
Michael Graves wrote:> Hello All, > > I've finally become so frustrated with my current router that I'm > seeking alternatives. I presently use a Linksys BEFSR81 which was > chosen for its QoS capability. However, that device quite routinely > loses WAN<>LAN connectivity requiring a reboot. Sometimes it goes day > or weeks just fine, sometimes I have to reboot it 4 times a day. > Readingwwwbroadbandreports.com's VOIP forum I see that this is a known > problem with this device. Linksys will provide no assistance > whatsoever.We have switched our main router to the new m0n0wall. The soerkis motherboard were the ones used for there development. We are running it on a dell celeron 1U system with just a Flash disk drive in the system. It is fast and works correctly. We had some some Linksys routers out in the other office which we are looking at replacing with this new m0n0wall. At present cost is a factor. linksys are under $ 100.00 for there vpn router and the othe conbination is around $ 400 to $500 dollars more. The QoS on ours seem to be working just fine. We have had no problems with. We do have some issues with there PPTP. This has given us some problems so we have to work on this part.> Also at the broadband Reports VOIP forum I found a post from someone > who had started using the m0nowall firewall with his Vonage service. > m0nowall looks interesting as it boots from CD and stores its setup > files on floppy. I can even be run on a Soerkis Engineering embedded > PC booting from compact flash. It appears to provide "traffic shaping" > which I'm given to understand is like the Linksys QoS controls. > > Does anyone here have experience with this or similar small Linux > firewall/router apps? Care to comment? > > FWIW, my home office has three SNOM 200s, a Sipura-2000, Asterisk with > outbound calling via VoicePulse Connect, 4 incomming PSTNs. > > Thanks, > > Michael