Some of you are techy and may be able to help

[beckyl]

The Monowall box that serves as our firewall and NATing device has packed up. This equals no internet at home. Either I need to pull out the box, install a small HD (not worth wasting more than 1GB on it, but bets are that you can't get an HD smaller than 4GB these days, I think the one D remembers in the server room is 8GB) grab the config file

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[rrc]

Looks like the cheapest hardrive you can get these days would be in the 160Gb range :-)

I have a spare adsl/cable router that you could drop in to do a similar job to the Netgear that you could borrow to tide you over while you work out what to do longer term. I could probably help with rebuilding the pc firewall but I'm not sure when I have time spare, not before the weekend. (I could preconfigure the spare router pretty quickly).

[korenwolf]

To be honest I've been happy enough with a netgear (wires & wifi) thingy slapped on the DSL and living behind it in NATland, we've still the linux box on the network (mostly acting as the house file store[1]). I've reached the point where what I want most from a router / firewall is "it just works", same for the fileshare.

[1] Actually upstairs connected via IP over mains

[vatine]

I have a "has hub/switch on the inside", "bridge between inside switch and WiFi" and "single ethernet on the outside" box at home, brand and model carefully forgotten (it's a netgear SOMETHING, though). Can check more specifics when I get home. Pretty much a case of "read manual to find the IP it self-selects, plug in, power up, configure via the internal web interface".

As far as that precious commodity "time", I can't commit to anything right now, but may be able to sneak away for a half-day wednesday-or-later.

[martinoh]

For what it's worth, I'm running a pair of FVG318s, one at home and one over in the (about to be decommissioned) office and they've proved pretty much bulletproof. In 18 months, I've had to force a reboot on one end, once, to clear a problem with the VPN between locations; otherwise they've just sat there and worked perfectly.

[beckyl]

Not her, but me replying here

[korenwolf]

*wave*

Possibly something like http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2830.html might do what you need.

[vatine]

The NetGEAR wifi thing I use sits as a router (and NAT gateway) between two ethernet segments and doesn't require any *DSL hook-in. It specifically routes and NATs between inside and outside, instead of bridging ,as quite a few things do.