Ok everyone. Here goes. I am a relatively happy vonage user. While i really do enjoy there service their routers are HORRIBLE. The last firmware upgrade i got from them....port forwarding would not work at all. Yes not at all. How could they miss this i have NO idea. I had to call them and get them to go back to the previous version of there firmware then port forwarding starting working again. So their vonage devices are great when it comes to the phone part but miserable in other areas. Even now my router will always get flakey and the router will start to kill my connection...yahoo will start to disconnect every couple minutes. If i am connected with RDS it will continually disconnect. So what do i plan to do about it? keep the vonage router let another router appliance handle everything rather than the vonage device. Now is where my question comes in. What should i do. I would like to have the ability to maybe have increased functionality in the future like maybe a VPN, ect. I use RDS now but i think a vpn would be much nicer and hopefully would work with more than just windows. Anways ill go into what i need now. The reason i got vonage was because of the QOS ability of this router. Compared to what ive seen with other VOIP services vonage is pretty good. Ive see way to many outage problems with sunrocket and others. Anyways since my QOS will have to be handled by my device that ability is VERY important to me. I have heard vonage uses dyamic ports so it looks like i will have to be able to either be able to do the QOS by port number or by a MAC address. What would you guys go with if you were me? Ive been thinking about just setting up OpenBSD with vmware on a windows service. I would uncheck everything under the extra network adapter that i would have plugged into the cable modem except for the vmware bridge. I don't think this should open up an vulnerbilities to windows hopefully. Anyways is this what you guys would recommend or do you think i need something like Sonicwall applience, Zywall 2 appliance, or my one of those linksys wrt54g routers with sveasoft firmware (i don't know how advanced this setup is but heard its pretty dang good). If i go the openbsd route i heard a lot of people talk about ip-less bridge which i really don't totally understand. In an ip-less bridge i know the appliance has a better change of not being attacked but i heard the "firewall" features aren't as great. Is this true? Which route do you think would be better for my situation. Ok now here comes the questions on vulnerability. Which one do you think would be less vulnerable when set up correctly: Linksys with custom firmware, zyxel zywall 2, sonicwall or openbsd.
Id like the ability to log into the router from the internet but if its going to cause me problems im not going to do it.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
ncage
Id like the ability to log into the router from the internet but if its going to cause me problems im not going to do it.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
ncage
