Linksys RVS4000 4-Port Gigabit Security Router with VPN
- LAN Ports - 4
- WAN Ports - N/A
- Firewall - SPI
Product Description
Protection of your network is a mission critical activity. Linksys builds powerful security into every product to keep your wired and wireless networks safe. Linksys Small Business Series systems have advanced firewall, encryption and authentication features to protect you from network threats - threats that can seriously disrupt or damage your business by stealing your valuable data, slowing down your network and interfering with business-critical applications. Linksys systems ensure maximum application availability enabling you to meet corporate governance and business continuance requirements. The Linksys Small Business Series is the affordable, reliable, high quality networking solution that helps you do business smarter. Secure and easy to install and maintain, it's built to grow with your business.As broadband speeds increase most 10/100 gateways do not have the power to support those higher data rates, and thus become the bottleneck in the network. The RVS4000 10/100/1000 4-Port VPN Router works at Gigabit speeds to meet the demands of today's networks. It features Linksys' proven SPI Firewall with an integrated Intrusion Detection and Prevent System (IDS/IPS). Its built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch can connect up four PCs directly, or additional hubs and switches. The QoS features provide consistent voice and video quality throughout your business.In addition, the RVS4000 features a Virtual Private Network (VPN) security engine that creates encrypted "IPSec tunnels" through the Internet. The IPSec VPN tunnels enable remote users from at home, or on the road to easily, and securely connect to the office network through a typical wired or wireless broadband connection. When used with another RVS4000 or other Linksys VPN router, "branch-to-branch" connections can be established allowing users in a remote office to connect to the corporate network.
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Linksys RVS4000 4-Port Gigabit Security Router with VPN
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- Publisher: Linksys
- Label: Linksys
- Studio: Linksys
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 36 reviews
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #4119
- nv:Device Type^VPN Router|RJ-45 Ports^4|Form Factor^Desktop|WAN Port(s)^1|10/100/1000 Mbps Ports^4|Networking Standards^IEEE 802.3i 10Base-T Ethernet|Networking Standards^IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet|Networking Standards^IEEE 802.3 NWay Auto-Negotiation|Networking Standards^IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet|Routing / Firewall Protoccols^TCP/IP|Routing / Firewall Protoccols^NAT|Routing / Firewall Protoccols^PPPoE|Routing / Firewall Protoccols^DHCP
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Avg. Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Works with OOL Boost 2008-11-14
Comment: Since the new firmware from october 08' 1.2.10 IPS on allows full speed throughput on up past 30mbps.
I am at 40mbps and all is fine.
No malformed packets
FTP server works fine and at full speed
No issues
I am using cat6 cables and gigbit ethernet cards and switches.I do not think jumbo frames is set to on in eth cards or router.
All good for OOL Boost customers too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: rare gigabit WAN port in a wired firewall/router 2008-11-06
Comment: I purchased the RVS4000 primarily due to its gigabit WAN port; very few wired firewalls have a gigabit WAN port. Not having a gigabit WAN port is a reasonable design because WAN ports in many SOHO firewall applications will likely connect to T1 (1.5 Mbps) or T3 lines (45 Mbps) at most. Since these data rates are lower than that of an ordinary 100 Mbps ethernet port, a gigabit WAN port is more than what is required of a WAN interface.
However, I wanted to use a firewall/router on the network inside of my primary NAT/SPI firewall which is primarily a gigabit network. So, a gigabit WAN port was an important feature because it needs to connect to a gigabit switch (not a WAN link).
Before my purchase, I read many customer reviews that complained about slow data rates through the WAN port. These reviews were very discouraging since the Linksys had a gigabit WAN interface. This was until I found a benchmark test that explained the negative reviews. The RVS4000 (primarily due to its industrial-grade security features) has a WAN to LAN data rate of 15.9 Mbps; very slow for a gigabit interface. However, this can be improved upon by configuring (turning off) the security features of the firewall. Unless you configure the firewall as a non-gateway device, don't expect orders of magnitude improvement in speed.
Here's the good news. The benchmark clocked the RVS4000 LAN to WAN data rate at 530 Mbps. Since many disk drive interfaces do not have a sustained data rate this high; you will not see this number when transfering files. I have a couple NAS RAID boxes with gigabit interfaces that top out at around 100-150 Mbps (individually). I can get higher network utilization numbers when doing several files transfers between different network endpoints simultaneously. Network file transfers tend to be very CPU intensive, even when using SCSI hard drives. The CPU intensive part comes from having to package up the data into IP packets and managing the data transfer.
The bottom line is that I am very satisfied with this firewall and its gigabit WAN port. But understand that it needs to be configured properly to optimize its performance and functionality. You don't need to be an engineer or rocket scientist to do this; however, you will need a bit of understanding about IP networking. If you use the RVS4000 as a primary firewall (configuring all of its security features), I suspect it will do that job rather well also.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: 2 bricks 2008-10-28
Comment: I have long since thrown these in a closet, but couldn't help throwing my review in. These are horrible. I have two bricks that used to be called the Linksys RVS4000. Both failed, support is horrible, and it was easier to just toss them then try to get replacements. Beware.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Not suitable for business use 2008-09-06
Comment: Be vary careful with the RVS4000. It's in the "Business Series" of RVxxx routers but it's stripped of all business class features. Most glaring is no support for multiple WAN IP addresses commonly provided with business class Internet.
What you get is a one-to-many NAT, firewall with traffic inspection, VPN service, QoS rules, a 4 port gigabit switch, and a gigabit uplink port. Only the 4 port switch functions with NAT disabled.
Web-based configuration is very elegant and the help pages actually help. Too many basic settings require a lengthy reboot. Expect to spend the first 30 minutes of ownership watching a progress bar and blinking LEDs.
My test of throughput from LAN to LAN via DMZ yielded about 15Mbps with the firewall on and about 25Mbps with the firewall off. There were moments when it was much faster but it sputtered and stalled too often to maintain a good average. Linksys claims an amazing NAT throughput of 800Mbps that I couldn't reproduce. LAN to LAN across the switch was faster than I could test. With the default configuration, no LANs could access the Internet while the DMZ was serving data. I didn't hang on to this router long enough to see if QoS rules would fix that.
This isn't the "Business Series" performance I expected. It certainly couldn't support a small satellite office with Business DSL. It's lacking even for a home router.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Garbage 2008-08-22
Comment: Do not buy this product. Search the web for 'rvs4000 ftp'. You will see that you cannot ftp through this router. Worse yet, Linksys doesn't care. They have made no effort to fix it and don't even respond to customers about the issue.
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