[H-GEN] Recommendations on routers / modems

[Russell Stuart]

I am currently at a company conference.  Apart from 
attending, my job is to provide Internet connectivity.  
Normally, it ain't that difficult.  I just bring 
along a Linux box that acts as a gateway to hide
whatever is behind it.

This time I had no end of trouble.  I traced the
problem down to bugs in the routers and modems they
were using.  The bugs caused DNS to fail completely
or to resolve to 1.0.0.0.  Eventually I bypassed all
their DMZ's and firewall's, using the Linux box to
perform those functions, and the conference was
happy.  This was fine for me, but from the hotels
point of view totally unacceptable as I had access
to their internal network.

I explained this to them, and they ask me to fix it.
I can't.  My problem is that I gave up using hardware
based firewalls years ago for precisely this reason -
I have been bitten by too many bugs.  Now I just buy
the dumbest modem I can buy, put it into whatever
bridging mode applies and do all the routing from
a Linux box.

This option is not really applicable to the hotel.
They use Windows, and I am not about put in a Linux
box that I have to maintain.  So I (or rather the
hotel) needs a router that provides NAT, DNS relay,
DHCP server, a firewall and perhaps QoS (flow control)
that works.  Seems like such a simple thing.  Any
recommendations?  Price isn't a huge issue.