We use a 675 configured as a bridge and use linux as the firewall/web server, etc. I ended up switching ISPs rather than try to get Freeswan to work through the nat. Mike Nixon wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with Mediacom (as a cable internet provider)? > My high speed access options (in Maple Plain) are either DSL through Citizen Communications (~$50/mo) or Cable through Mediacom (~$30/mo if I get my own Cable modem). > > My employer will allow me to access their VPN (in windoze) over cable/DSL if I use a Linksys Router like the BEFSR41. The best price I see local is about $90 at MicroCenter or BestBuy, but Amazon.com has them for $70. Any other good deals I've overlooked? > > Does the Linksys Router do anything more than NAT? > (Doesn't a Cisco 675/678 DSL router do NAT? - my church doesn't have a firewall (hardware or pc), but I'd swear the Cisco 675 there is doing NAT) > I don't understand what other benefits I would get if I setup a linux pc to act as a firewall? (any good sites that explain this?) > > Thanks, > Mike Nixon > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list