good routers for linux/win?

yowwww · 04-13-2003, 02:31 PM

Hey @ll, I am going to be buying a router soon and I was wondering if anyone would recommend a certian kind (or not recommend another kind for that matter)?

I am staying away from SMC and looking at Linksys.

Ideas Please?

esteeven · 04-13-2003, 02:46 PM

Linskys works fine for me at home. I prefer it to the netgear ones at work.

yowwww · 04-13-2003, 03:08 PM

thanks for your input - can it be configured so that your net use is equally accessible as without it?

other opinions?

nakkaya · 04-13-2003, 03:33 PM

linksys works with my redhat witout any problems but mandrake caused me problems

esteeven · 04-13-2003, 04:34 PM

If I plug my box directly into my cable modem, I don't notice any difference at all. The router dchp manages three separate computers and acts as a firewall.

yowwww · 04-13-2003, 05:00 PM

Mainly I don't wanna be restricted in downloading or accessing websites - I saw that SMC had problems with it - that's why I am staying away from them. I want the router to be a nice addition, not a drawback. I know I will have to learn a lot about them to get it going the way I want. I used to have one so I know a lot of basics.

osfestus · 04-13-2003, 09:53 PM

I can't recommend Cisco's 806 for small biz/home highly enough. Course, I'm a CCNA/CCDA so I guess I am biased!! Still and all, you get awesome power and a good foundation in dedicated hardware.

yowwww · 04-14-2003, 07:51 AM

Thanks for everyone's input!

pantera6925 · 04-14-2003, 01:32 PM

linksys is cheap, easy and robust. does everything you need it to do without hassles. i'm studying linux so i have a lot of versions of it and haven't had any problems with my home network and linux. that goes for redhat and mandrake.

yowwww · 04-14-2003, 02:01 PM

thanks a lot for all the responses and input!

I ended up getting the linksys befsr41-ca ver. 2

I just booted into win xp and ran the cd from there. It configured everything automatically and told me what to do every step of the way. It was awesome. I then booted into red hat and it automatically just worked. On my backup system with Suse on it, it worked the same way, no configuration needed or anything.

Now I have to use the net as I usually do and see if anything is blocked.

I think it is connecting as dhcp - does that still mean that I have to configure it or will it just share the net as normal without any restrictions?