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On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Simon Waters wrote:
Want a router that can handle 8 public IP addresses (IPv4), and ideally one with 8 ethernet ports (but not essential) so that most of them can be kept separate physically.
Avoid Zyxel. I've just been evaluating a pair and they're rubbish. Keep rebooting and crash at the slightest hint of a sipvicious attack.
One of these ports will have NAT on, but likely the firewalling and hence that NAT will be done with a GNU/Linux box. So that is not the routers problem.Idea is an Office network, and a selection of exposed or DMZ boxes. I can do the networking many ways.But ideally I'd have an ADSL router with good status reporting, good traffic shaping, ideally a little bit of traffic monitoring.Failing that any solid router than accepts 8 IP addresses and will forward them on to my firewall. And any reasons for recommendation.Wireless - not needed. IPv6 support desirable.
I'd suggest a Draytek 2820, but most are 4-ports only. (and no ipv6 yet) They can do NAT and routing on the same LAN, but I'd do one or the other.
My home/office setup is an older Draytek 2600 which takes a /29 and can firewall the DMZ with one of the DMZ hosts being a Linux router/firewall for the other NATted LANs. It gives me 5 usable IP addresses.
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