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 Good value for money July 30, 2010
Maxim Masiutin (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova)
Pros:
1. Good speed when it comes to load balancing two incoming 100Mbit connection from two different providers;
2. Load balancing is easy to setup;
3. Does not hang;
4. Silent, has no fan;
5. Stateful packet inspection firewall.
Cons:
1. Does not support IGMP snooping (unlink simple D-link routers) which is required to watch IPTV;
2. The case becomes hot when the device is installed horizontally, since the air flow holes are located on the sides. But if the device is put vertically, the normal air flow restores and the case becomes of normal temperature;
3. It's a challenge to setup the router to not use a provider which does not pass packets due to a problem somewhere on the provider's side on a third or fourth hop.
 Be forewarned... many software bugs. July 26, 2010
Craig Brown
I needed a low-cost solution to setting up a tunnel from my home office to my comany's data center. On the surface, the RV042 appeared to be the proper solution.
After receiving a brand new unit, I attached the device and attempted to set up a tunnel between my home office and my Cisco ASA 5510 in the data center. Within 20 minutes, the tunnel was up on IPSec, but then the problems began.
Every packet sent through the tunnel was greeted by the ASA with an error of
"Unsupported message length of 1045987235"
or some other rediculous length. As it should, the ASA dropped the packet and failed to respond.
Calling customer support was futile, as several of their techs had never heard of connecting a VPN tunnel to an ASA unit. Failing to find any error in my VPN setup, I was directed to the ASA support, who, because they were "supporting" an RV042, and not my ASA's (which are under contract), wanted $400/hour in order to provide any support beyond "we need a credit card number".
Not having a spare several hundred dollars, I broke out my test equipment. It turns out that there are several IP bugs in this device.
1. My ISP cannot (or will not) assign me a static IP address, so I had to use FQDN IKE authentication. It took me a while to figure out that the Local group's authentication was used for the Remote group FQDN.
2. With dynamic addressing, the IP packets sent had an unitinitialized message length, causing the ASA to deny routing.
3. NAT-T (NAT Traversal in the RV042) does not properly function, and the NAT-T wrapper has an uninitialized message length in the IP packet.
Finally, RV042 to RV042 tunnelling is the only tested configuration of this device. Connections to any type of enterprise level device (PIX/ASA) is not only untested, but unsupported by Cisco's Small Business help center.
I was forced to return this device as an unusable paperweight, despite the marketing by Cisco that tunneling to an enterprise-level VPN server is a fully supported configuration. I know that Linksys has always been small/inexpensive equipment without all of the features of a "real" device, but given the level of support I have received for this issue, I am now starting to question if I will place ANY Cisco equipment in my datacenters. If this is a taste of the future, then I will miss the "good old days" terribly.
Using mine as a paperweight March 27, 2010
Helen J. Casper (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've used Amazon for a decade now and almost never post a negative review.
I bought this to allow VPN but to also consolidate a DSL and Cable incoming connection. I was never able to get it to work properly with my modems and my wireless routers on opposite sides of this thing. Connections to the outside world would get confused about where they were coming from one moment to the next. The whole experience was world's worse than I thought, and I never even got to the point of trying the VPN which sounds like it doesn't work quite right either.
 Best Internet Router under $1000.00 February 3, 2010
Bret Hedrington (Twin Cities, MN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great Router.
Tech Support is AWSOME!
Built in RIP 1/2, Port Forwarding, Port Translation, NAT, Policy Based Firewall, VPN's, PPTP, And Much More...
Put this unit between your system and the internet and you won't be dissapointed.
Reliability is GREAT...Have several at differnet locations and work flawless for years!
So far so good November 6, 2009
R. Maigret (Los Angeles, CA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased the RV042 specifically for failover between my cable modem and adsl line. Up until this point I'd been doing a manual failover. Also, I'd been hesitant to run a consumer router, instead always running a linux box for home routing/firewall needs.
Out of the box it was very easy to setup the basics, emulate everything my linux box was doing at the time (incoming forwards, etc.), and within 1/2 hour was up-and-running. No complaints except I was unable to perform a firmware upgrade via a browser unless I fired up a VM and did it with Internet Explorer. Similar to my complaint with all Linksys products, they really need to stop developing for IE/Active crap and focus on actual web-standards - especially now with folks moving away entirely from Windows overall.
Performance hasn't seemed to take a hit, and soon I'll setup the VPN and SNMP features so I can get some logging going. That's another complaint, no easy way to log or setup via a CLI - unless I missed something.
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