Mike, thanks for Tomato router. Focussing on large corporate IT I haven't come across it.

I admit I would have some wariness in replacing the firmware on my home router, though. If it all goes Pete Tong you are on your tod.

Installing it on an older piece of kit that's out of warranty and you intend to replace anyway - why not.

SD

I'd even go a little further than that - I view it as something that sits between prosumer and enterprise (it's that good).

I run it on an Asus RT-N16 at home, which you can pick up for circa £60, and then with a bit of tweaking you have something that can run with low to mid range Cisco/Juniper kit and has a 140Mbit/s firewall throughput (and a 480mhz chip)

Stick that alongside PFSense, and you've got a pretty impressive firewall range for not much money.

Even low-end Juniper kit does more than basic packet filtering .... does your Tomato have any ALGs ? Can your Tomato do "apply-path",candidate configs, "show | compare", "commit confirmed" and rollbacks ? :E

Tomato is probably better than a cheap Cisco, but better than a Juniper ? No way ! :=

- Yes
- No
- Not specifically
- It's GUI-configured in the main but has access to the Linux underside for commands if necessary
- See above x2

p.s. - never said it was better :)

I have not read the whole thread, so forgive me if I am repeating something already said.

I have a Netgear router which specifically offers a "guest" WiFi network.This effectively separates your lodgers from your own computers and thus stops any unwanted snooping .

What I am not sure about is if the firewall and URL blocking functions which the router also offers can be configured differently for guest and main users (any guests of mine may be upset to find that they cannot use Tw@tter or Facebook).

That really depends upon the functionality of the specific router in question.