Junction Networks Labs: My Open Router

When we heard about an Open Source router at Junction Networks, we were naturally very intrigued. We love the Open Source movement and have invested heavily in it, so being able to recommend an open source router would have made us very happy.

Alas, we cannot. At least not an out-of-the-box Netgear WRG614L, which is the router touted on myopenrouter.com. We have a historic problem with Netgear routers in that they implement an ALG for SIP that cannot be turned off. (What's an ALG? Read about it here.) Unfortunately, out of the box, the WRG614L continues to have this problem, so it will not work successfully with the OnSIP Hosted PBX. We chose to test the Netgear of all the open source routers because we'd hope this had been fixed.

However, being open source, it's entirely possible for someone to change the WRG614L so that the SIP ALG can be turned off. Have you done it? We'd love to hear about it.