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Choosing A Router/Firewall For A Small Office

net4801_2_l One project that I’m am about to start is moving from my m0n0wall router to a new one build around pfsense. The motivation for the project is the integration of our Comcast Business Class internet service into the rest of the household. At present there are two separate networks, with only a few devices enjoying the high speed cable service. The pfsense system will be configured for dual WAN, accessing both the cable service and Covad DSL circuit.

My existing m0n0wall runs on an old Soekris Net4801. In service for many years, it has been extremely reliable. If m0n0wall does what you need I have no hesitation in recommending the software. Support from the user community is tremendous as well.

pfSense + Freeswitch

December 23, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

According to the pfSense blog there's been an effort to implement Freeswitch as an installable package to pfSense. This is very interesting. There's a long list of comments to the blog post which collectively spell out some of the merits…

Updated Home-Office Network Diagram

July 30, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband, VoIP

I puzzles me how to see how many people find the diagram of my home/office network interesting. Yet it consistently gets a lot of traffic, so here’s an update to the original one I posted in March.

m0n0wall Traffic Shaping For VOIP Screencast

July 29, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband, VoIP

After several months of thinking about it I finally got around to recording a screencast tutorial about setting up the traffic shaping feature in m0n0wall to accommodate VOIP traffic. Phillip Cooper's series of screencasts were the inspiration for this. In…

Netgear’s New Open Source Router

So Netgear has released an open source router. Thus it has something to compete with the open source version of the venerable Linksys WRT-54GL. Garrett Smith has an interesting viewpoint on this. One that I’m inclined to agree with.

I’m not a typical user. I’m an early adopter. I don’t mind putting in some effort to making something work up to its promised potential. I also like open source, but I just don’t see the value in running 3rd party software on a hobbled router platform. It’s just not good use of my time.

Network Maintainance At Home: Moving Subnet

Sometimes the apparently simple, little things take longer than you'd expect. In my recent travels I've had some trouble when trying to VPN connect back to my home office. This generally happens for one of two reasons; The ISP at…