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Great Router.Tech Support is AWSOME.Built in RIP 1/2, Port Forwarding, Port Translation, NAT, Policy Based Firewall, VPN's, PPTP, And Much More.Put this unit between your system and the internet and you won't be dissapointed.Reliability is GREAT.Have several at differnet locations and work flawless for years.
Out of the box it was very easy to setup the basics, emulate everything my linux box was doing at the time (incoming forwards, etc)., and within 1/2 hour was up-and-running. I purchased the RV042 specifically for failover between my cable modem and adsl line. No complaints except I was unable to perform a firmware upgrade via a browser unless I fired up a VM and did it with Internet Explorer. Up until this point I'd been doing a manual failover. Also, I'd been hesitant to run a consumer router, instead always running a linux box for home routing/firewall needs. Similar to my complaint with all Linksys products, they really need to stop developing for IE/Active crap and focus on actual web-standards - especially now with folks moving away entirely from Windows overall.Performance hasn't seemed to take a hit, and soon I'll setup the VPN and SNMP features so I can get some logging going. That's another complaint, no easy way to log or setup via a CLI - unless I missed something.
This of course is time invested into future installations: now that I know the proper configuration, installations at future sites will fly by. I heard that others had luck getting this unit to work using site-to-site VPN with SonicWALL units, and for about 1/3 of the cost of a small SonicWALL, I thought it was worth a chance. After 3 hours of fiddling, I finally got it working and it seems to be very stable. We may never buy SonicWALLs for our remote sites again.Definitely check this unit out if you are looking for robust, reasonably-priced site-to-site VPN. About the only thing it doesn't support that I wish it did is XAUTH user credentials.
Nice dual WAN router for the price. Very fast switchover from primary to backup WAN. Very easy to setup as well.
This is a waste of money - it will drop the line even with only one wan being used.0 stars
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