[olug] Dec Meeting - i need some soho NAT routers

[Rob Townley]

On 11/30/09, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
>> I have 2 linksys routers.  1 is an old wrt54gl, the other is a wrt54g.
>>
>> Craig Wolf
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>>>>> Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> 11/12/2009 >>>
>> i need 2 more SOHO NAT routers for December's meeting, anybody got
>> some spares to bring?  Preferably, available a few days before the
>> meeting.
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>
> ok, another month _flew_ by and arrangements were not totally
> completed for routers even though there were many volunteers.
> Secondly, all the technology is not in place, but may be in time.
> Last but not least, i have work commitments that may preclude me from
> even attending Tues Dec 1st.  i lost a few days of work due to
> babysitting and will not know if i am on track till late morning.  So
> if somebody has something else to talk about ready, please be ready.
>
> Turns out at _least_ 4 would be needed in total, not just two, so
> those that have unused routers, please put your name / email on them
> and bring them.  Two of which would need the capability to turn off
> local dhcp services.
>
> They could be used for more than 3 meeting topics, multiple gateways,
> ipv6, and p2p vpn, among others.  Some of the versions of dd-wrt are
> capable of ipv6 and it would be cool to have that demoed with straight
> ipv6 and ip6in4 tunnelling.  I am not the only one that would like to
> test the security in a lab and review all sec considerations of 6.
> Some of the p2p vpn technologies work even when all clients are
> roaming behind varying nats and having multiple routers available
> would allow us to show this more readily.  MS marketing is pushing
> their IPv6/IPv4/IPsec "DirectAccess" as painless and secure no matter
> where the laptop is located.  When really it is to make up for major
> deficiencies of discontinuously connected AD members.    OLUGgers will
> want to be armed with the alternatives and having multiple routers
> readily available will facilitate demoing and testing the pre-existing
> alternative technologies.
>
>
> Jon, is it easy for you to isolate lab computers from the rest of AIM?
>  If i and or other members were to connect their unlimited cell phone
> data plan for a secondary internet behind one of these other routers,
> you lose control of your network.  Understandably, AIM would not want
> that.  On the other hand without some form of secondary gateway, some
> of the aforementioned technologies could not be completely tested.
>