[vishnu]

At the risk of being repetitive, because I've posted this before, all the computers on my LAN have static IP on the 10.4.0 network; no wifi, all hard-wired ethernet, and they talk to the internet through a computer, not a commercial router, there's no such thing as a secure commercial router. So the computer that connects me to the Internet is a January 1997 Pentium Pro 200, that's basically been up and running 24/7 for 26 years, which is a matter of never-ending astonishment to me. It's been through fans, hard drives and power supplies, but the motherboard is solid as a rock. It runs a Linux kernel I configure and compile myself, it runs an IPTables firewall whose configuration script I wrote myself, it runs my website using Apache, and it runs dhcpd so my guests can plug their lappys into one of my switches and be connected to my LAN and to the Internet. It wasn't easy setting all this up, but totally worth it. I have never, and will never, use a commercial router to connect to the Internet. To reiterate: There's no such thing as a secure commercial router.