At the moment, I'm testing a ZyXEL Prestiege 642R as part of InspireNet's
Jetstart trial (I love my job :)

It's kinda nifty and to put it technically, has 'features up the wazoo'.

pros: (a lot of these are pretty standard)
updates its internal clock via ntp ***
nice system status page that shows cpu loading ***
snmp monitoring
dhcp server
access lists by protocol and ip/port etc.
ios lookalike cmdline
menu driven telnet interface
advanced nat that handles quake, cuseemee, irc, vdolive,realaudio etc.

ports:
1 x rj45 ethernet (10/100) ***
1 x DB9 Serial (console)
1 x rj11 adsl
1 x power

Aparently it's supposed to be in the region of $700, making it possibly :)
one of the best value for money external adsl router boxes available.

I guess the telnet ui isn't for novices (people who don't know which
encapsulation to use). However the windows9x interface I downloaded from
their website makes it really simple (username,password - set other options
to auto).

I'd have to say that the filtering and pinhole equivalent is clunky - you
might be able to do non tcp/udp ip protocols over it, but they'd all go to
one server internally (and I'm not sure about that, you might not be able to
do them at all). GRE tunnels might be out, but that's probably not a great
concern for most people. You can do pptp through it so you could bridge
things that way.

I'm going to wait untill I've tried a few more before I make a decision on
getting one :)

-geoff/Nem
ps: in next fortnights installment I review a cisco 827 (hopefully :)

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Received on Fri Jan 5 14:39:21 2001