VPN, QoS (10)
Last time DARK (my group of buddies) had this crazy idea of VPN-ing our home networks. Chatted with Keny yesterday and so happened he was thinking about it too. Thought of using dd-wrt based routers to do point-to-point VPN but seems like using ms chap for authentication is not really secure. *roll eyes*
Had another crazy idea of using a small device, perhaps a D-Link DIR-300 to QoS my network. The QoS provided by the DIR-655 is not really extensive. I was looking for guaranteed bandwidth and stuffs. But seems like none of the third party firmwares offer protocol analysis. One major concern would be the switching capacity and connection session. Hope it would be more than what my DIR-655 can handle!
Time to look for a traffic shaper that has been implemented on third party devices.
Andy
Try my firmware for the dir-300 :
http://www.dlinkhelp.eu/dir300/dir300_v1.03_86c7.bin
Traffic shaping (bandwidth control) and session controll inside
regards
Craft
craft,
thanks! Just tried it out. Actually I was looking for layer 7 qos features.
layer7 qos need more power (a simple broadband router is not enough), we have a device for that (DFL-M510).
craft,
Ah i see. I actually though of building one traffic manager to do deep packet inspection as some peer to peer video streaming applications don’t have standard ports. Guess I will give it a pass then. Perhaps I should look into DIR-320 which is slightly more robust than the DIR-300 in terms of CPU and RAM amount.
craft
So, with your firmware I can shape traffic by DIR-300? I use DSL-2300U + DIR-300 for 2 computers (one by ethernet and notebook by wi-fi), and I need a firmware with traffic shaping.
Thanks!
Pharmacist,
The latest firmware should pack basic QoS.
shadowandy
Thank’s a lot! So, I right understand, that QoS = Traffic Shaper (in native firmware). How it use? May be You post a link where I can read about this.
Pharmacist,
There are help information in the web administrative page itself. Another way is to contact D-Link help or by calling up their support line in your region.
ok. Thank’s!!!
dsl vpn router…
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