| K.S. Bhaskar on 3 Jul 2017 19:45:57 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Firewall choices for a small software development business |
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:All, as a post-script to my earlier request: for inbound ssh or VPN for the developers how reliable is that with a dynamic IP address (and a service like DynDNS)? Or should I go for a static IP address? Thanks.If you're planning to do inbound VPN for more than one user, I would recommend that instead of using a "router", you use a barebones x86 box that has two to four ethernet ports; e.g. https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/ or https://www.supermicro.com/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm products/system/Mini-ITX/SYS- . Inexpensive consumer or SOHO routers don't have the CPU power to provide acceptable VPN bandwidth to multiple users, and routers that do have enough CPU power are much, much more expensive than a barebones x86 box. The other really big advantage to using an x86 box as your router is that it gives you a larger range of distros to choose from.E200-9B.cfm As far as static/dynamic IP goes, I have a "dynamic" IP from Verizon that changes about once a year, so keeping my dynamic hostname updated through he.net hasn't been a problem.--Soren Harward
stharward@gmail.com
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