Like every other website on the planet, SmallNetBuilder uses cookies. Our cookies track login status, but we only allow admins to log in anyway, so those don't apply to you. Any other cookies you pick up during your visit come from advertisers, which we don't control.
If you continue to use the site, you agree to tolerate our use of cookies. Thank you!
Privacy Policy

Router Charts

Click for Router Charts

Mesh Charts

Click for Mesh Charts

Tags:

Introduction

SMC Barricade Plus Cable/DSL Broadband router

SMC Barricade Plus Cable/DSL Broadband router
Summary VPN version of popular Barricade router with SPI based firewall and PPTP / IPsec VPN endpoint, but no printserver or dialup WAN support.
Will probably do better with PPTP vs. IPsec-based VPNs
Update 10/24/02 - Updates for 2.03e firmware features, including TZO Dynamic DNS, UPnP, PPTP WAN type, and "loopback" support.
Pros • Schedulable firewall rules & URL keyword blocking w/different time periods per day
• Supports 10 WAN IP addresses
• Supports PPTP & IPsec VPN endpoints
• Supports NetBIOS broadcast (MS Network browsing)
Cons • No Web traffic logging
• No inbound port range mapping
• 760kbps IPsec VPN performance
• Poor IPsec VPN setup logging

SMC's Barricade Plus is the only one of the current crop of inexpensive VPN endpoint routers to support both IPsec and PPTP tunnels. I found it to be similar to its non-VPN sibling the SMC7004VBR [reviewed here], but with a few idiosyncracies of its own...

Support Us!

If you like what we do and want to thank us, just buy something on Amazon. We'll get a small commission on anything you buy. Thanks!

Most Read This Week

Over In The Forums

RT-AC66U_B1 + 386.1_2 = NO QoS ?
Router + Switch Design Options
Lan data transfer speed question
Wi-Fi 6E Preview With ASUS' GT-AXE11000 ROG Rapture
Is [WTFast] the Same thing as [AES-NI]?

Don't Miss These

  • 1
  • 2
› ‹