Roadrunner

[Chris Janicki]

The Lynksys should be able to pass services (like DNS) fine... you just 
have to set up "Port Forwarding" under the "Advanced" tab on the admin 
web page.  This will allow requests on particular ports (DNS=53) to pass 
through your firewall to your server.  It's pretty flexible.

IMHO, I've used Ascend, Flowpoint (Cabletron), and Netopia router 
equipment... I've found Lynksys is just as capable as any other, but far 
easier to administer.

Chris

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/29/01, 3:38:05 PM, John Abreau <jabr at Blu.Org> wrote regarding Re: 
Roadrunner :


> Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com> writes:

> >    On Friday 25 May 2001 10:31 pm, Bill Horne wrote:
> >    > What are the plusses and minuses of using Linksys instead of a Linux
> >    > firewall?
> >
> > One minus -- if you're trying to run a nameserver (i.e., a content
> > server rather than a proxy server) on your own network, you can't have
> > it running behind a Linksys.

> Why is that? I have a Netgear firewall, which I always assumed was
> functionally identical to the Linksys firewall, and it doesn't suffer
> this limitation. I run a DNS server internally so I don't have to 
maintain
> a full /etc/hosts on every machine in my house, and it's worked fine
> since I set it up. In fact, all my Internet activities went from sluggish
> to speedy once I stopped looking at Mediaone's nameservers.


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