digitalsushi's Journal: D-Link DI-804 or DI-804V

the d-link di-804v (which is a di-804 with better firmware i believe) is the worst consumer product I've yet purchased. A Cable/DSL/PPPoE NAT/PAT gateway that supports up to 8 IKE/IPSEC VPN with IP filtering, 4 Auto-MDIX 100 megabit ethernet ports, and an async serial for backup dialup. Everything worked great. 'Cept the darned thing would not keep a TCP tunnel open. I could ssh into a box and leave it flooding data, and it would time out. I could ssh into another box and ping myself (I hear you in the back, yes it's ICMP but the screen updates on the far end are TCP, thank you) What an ordeal. I bought them (100 each new) to avoid FreeS/WAN. Back at it, I am, having learned the lesson the hard way- sometimes breaking down and spending the cash for a canned solution is going to end you right where you should have been- whatever amount of time you would have spent yourself doing the FreeS/WAN is going to be cheaper than just coughing up the 200 for two of these inferior D-Link products. Their technical support, almost obligatory, was horrid. Apparently there's no escalation that yields a literate person.

And I hope google finds me

[digitalsushi]

And links to this review, so that others will avoid this great error I have commited.

here here

[heliocentric]

I echo all that you said and I hope that google finds it. I will certainly add linkage to it so as to increase the Page Rank.