Upgrading my Athlon64 network -
Yesterday my router (a Netgear WGR614v4) died. It was acting erratically, dropping WiFi connections, so I tried updating the EPROM. That killed it! Netgear is sending me another one for the shipping costs.
It has been my intention to replace this router with a more sophisticated WiFi & Ethernet firewall router (appliance) with VPN capabilities. Anyone know some models that they like?
I would also consider solutions that route all traffic through a software firewall on the AMD servers, although they seem more expensive.
My network configuration is a small number of Athlon64 machines at work, including a socket 939 server, and a small number of Athlon machines at home, including a socket A server. I want to be able to initiate remote backups of the two servers to each other over DSL lines in the dead of night. I figure I can initiate the backup from the home server if the work router supports VPN access.
I am specifically not interested in content filtering or virus protection - the first because we are all responsible adults, the second because solutions which really work for detecting viruses in real time over a wideband connection are very expensive, and solutions for the appliance market either compromise the virus detection for real-time detection or have to do a store, check, forward algorithm (not realtime). Virus protection is best done at the client.
Any experiences or horror stories (or even funny router stories) welcome.
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