Asus RT68U in Office Environment

[mirage221]

Hi,

Not exactly an asuswrt merlin related question except for the fact that I will be loading the firmware from merlin.

So we were operating out of an office rented at someone else's premises with sophos firewall etc to protect us from the internet and kaspersky installed on all machines.

Next week we move into our own rented office.

As a company we are working on a SAAS platform built locally on windows / linux machines and deployed into Azure.

In our new office, is it possible to have just an Asus RT-68U router that connects to the internet and perhaps PFSENSE on Azure connected via VPN as the entry / exit to our world behind the router? And from there we connect to the internet at large or to our Azure servers.

We got some some 30 machines connected via switches going into the Asus RT-68U plus a local server.

Is this ok or should I expect to get hacked?

Taking it a step ahead. What if we remove PFSense from the equation entirely and only use VPN to connect to Azure for our work and the internet at large directly from the Asus Router? Does this call for a hack?

Our internet speed is just 5 mbps

 

[netwrks]

Hi,

Not exactly an asuswrt merlin related question except for the fact that I will be loading the firmware from merlin.

So we were operating out of an office rented at someone else's premises with sophos firewall etc to protect us from the internet and kaspersky installed on all machines.

Next week we move into our own rented office.

As a company we are working on a SAAS platform built locally on windows / linux machines and deployed into Azure.

In our new office, is it possible to have just an Asus RT-68U router that connects to the internet and perhaps PFSENSE on Azure connected via VPN as the entry / exit to our world behind the router? And from there we connect to the internet at large or to our Azure servers.

We got some some 30 machines connected via switches going into the Asus RT-68U plus a local server.

Is this ok or should I expect to get hacked?

Taking it a step ahead. What if we remove PFSense from the equation entirely and only use VPN to connect to Azure for our work and the internet at large directly from the Asus Router? Does this call for a hack?

Our internet speed is just 5 mbps

Hacking question aside, if you have a pfsense why would you use the ASUS as a router? It would be better utilized as a Access Point, and let the pfsense handle all the networking / firewall / VPN / QoS duties..

 

[pete y testing]

Our internet speed is just 5 mbps

not going to get much done with that speed and in fact i prob wouldnt bother as its going to be as slow as and productivity will suffer while ppl sit there waiting on the vpn or internet connection