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VPN

The FR24 supports PPTP, IPsec and L2TP VPN protocols for both Virtual servers and client pass through sessions, but the pass through capabilities may be too limited for some users. The number of simultaneous pass through sessions may not be a problem, since the FR24 supports four PPTP and at least 16 IPsec and L2TP sessions each. But the catch is that all sessions must terminate at the same remote VPN gateway.

Logging and Other Stuff

Logging is not one of the FR24's strong points, with no support for traffic logging. According to Hawking, the only things logged are connection status for each enabled Firewall Access Rule, Administration logins, and Hacker alerts. During my testing, I also noticed that WAN DHCP leases were also logged.

If you fill in your email address and SMTP server information, you'll get an email whenever the router detects a "hack" event, or when the log fills up. You can also mail a copy of the log on demand. There's no support for syslog or SNMP trap logging.

Other Features

There are a few other features that the FR24 sports that I haven't mentioned, so here you go:

• there's a real-time clock that you can either set manually, or have automatically pick up the correct time from an NTP server (you set the time zone, but there's no Daylight Savings option)
• you can save and load the router's configuration to a file on your computer
• you can set the router to discard ping requests (disabled by default)
• you can ping an IP address (would have been more useful to be able to run a series of pings and ping by domain name)
• dynamic DNS is supported via dyndns.org