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I run Untangle at home, it's a linux based firewall with applications in a
virtual 'rack'. If you have a spare P4 with 2 NICs (3 for DMZ) it's amazing.

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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greets all;
>
> Sometimes you have to be a little schmardter than the average bear.
>
> I got tired of noting the extremely poor upload performance of my buffalo
> hi-power router in recent weeks, a speed test showed what should have been
> a 2 megabit upload speed was actually doing under 100k bits a sec.
>
> So I tried to reset it and reflash it, but managed to about half brick it
> because I couldn't find the reset button, turns out you have to snap the
> snap on base off it for access to the reset button hole.
>
> But when I put another netgear in its place, I DHCP'd a different IP
> address from the one my registered name below points at.  Not good.  I
> found a mini-dd-wrt install for it and put that in.  Same but wrong
> address.
>
> Called shentel, who gave me a run-around about how my address was dynamic.
> Wanted to charge me another 5 bucks a month for a fixed address, but it
> wouldn't be the old one.  Then they wanted the MAC from my router so they
> could set it up, and the leds all came on spelling out _bingo!_
>
> So I reset the Buffalo, hooked it up long enough to get its DHCP derived
> address, which was indeed the old one and wrote down its WAN MAC.  Then I
> switched cables around, logged into the netgear, and "cloned" that MAC into
> its WAN port.   Bingo was right, and after a minor adjustment to httpd.conf
> since this router cannot port forward AND translate the port #, so it is
> now listening on port 6309, and my web page should be back up and
> accessible again.
>
> That netgear, a WNR-3500U/WNR3500L, running its own firmware, did not last
> the night last night, when I woke up this morning it was working, but my
> username and password had been changed.  Black Hat or NSA, same diff,
> somebody got in and played.
>
> There are not any backdoors in dd-wrt since its not even a US built
> software.  I highly recommend it, if your router has enough flash and ram
> to handle it.  The failed buffalo has 32 megs of flash, and 16 megs of ram
> so it can do it all in one swell foop.  The netgear is much more resource
> limited, so the install is a 2 step install, but it will fit in the 4 megs
> of flash in that unit and do 95% of what the full version can do.  Setup a
> decently long username and password, and NSA will be forced to use their
> still a long ways from ready, Quantum computer to hack it before the
> universe runs down.
>
> Gotta love it when a plan comes together.  In the meantime I'll buy another
> buffalo or similarly souped up router now that I know how to make the
> switch invisible to shentel. :)
>
> Now, if that pair of SALT chips would appear, but I think they may be
> sealed in a bottle, thrown in the harbor in Shanghai so it will drift to
> the US eventually.  I hope...
>
> Cheers, Gene
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