experience with cisco 2621 as cablem modem router?

[treetop]

Recently I stumbled upon a 2621, and am thinking of using it as my cable modem router. Does anyone have any experience using it as such? Links to website that contains any tutorial would be appreicated.

I know it's kinda overkill, but might as well as give it a shot as I never played around with cisco before.

 

[Garion]

Overkill is definitely an understatement..

First off, a "real" Cisco router is designed to be just a router out of the box. It can do NAT, etc. but it doesn't really have a lot of the firewall features you might want, unless you purchase a multi-thousand-dollar piece of software, firewall feature set.

If you're not familiar with Cisco and networking this probably isn't the project for you. It'll take you a LONG time to get it to work right. Simple features like NAT, DHCP server, port translation, etc. that you can easily setup on a SOHO router will take days to research, figure out and play with. Security is another gotcha - Unless you're VERY careful you'll have huge security holes in your setup.

In reality, a good SOHO router is much better at doing what it does. It bundles together all the features you really need into a small, cheap, easy-to-manage package.

If you want to play with the router, I'd use it in a lab-type environment and experiment around a bit.

- G

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Garion
Overkill is definitely an understatement..

First off, a "real" Cisco router is designed to be just a router out of the box. It can do NAT, etc. but it doesn't really have a lot of the firewall features you might want, unless you purchase a multi-thousand-dollar piece of software, firewall feature set.

If you're not familiar with Cisco and networking this probably isn't the project for you. It'll take you a LONG time to get it to work right. Simple features like NAT, DHCP server, port translation, etc. that you can easily setup on a SOHO router will take days to research, figure out and play with. Security is another gotcha - Unless you're VERY careful you'll have huge security holes in your setup.

In reality, a good SOHO router is much better at doing what it does. It bundles together all the features you really need into a small, cheap, easy-to-manage package.

If you want to play with the router, I'd use it in a lab-type environment and experiment around a bit.

- G

 

[treetop]

I know cisco is not for home usage, but I am determined to play around with it. So anyone with experience with this setup or know a site that contains info?

 

[SpunkyJones]

Cisco.com is your friend. Plenty of info to sort through there, sample configs, how to's, troubleshooting guides, etc...