> Well, we just got this modem going with linux, so i can confirm that

Damn. I was hoping to be the first to post a success story with this
modem. Got it going today using a patched pppd and kernel-2.4's PPPoE
support.
  Though you have to modify the kernel headers to use the correct frame
types. Or should I say incorrect fram type :(
  And I'll admit I did this the hard way - sat down with the PPPoE RFC's
and a packet sniffer to find out about the different ethernet frame types
it uses.

Works fine though, and its pretty easy to set up pppd to let you access the
modems config web page in linux.
  I'll admit that I've been unable to get the telnet interface going - when
you login with the correct password/username it silently drops the
connection :(

But the web configuration works perfectly in linux (however minimal it may
be)

and my jetstart connection seems to work reasonably well through it - as it
does for the 3 other users masq'd behind the box.

> Doing a jetstream-games download speed comparison with the Nokia M11
> showed the same results.

now this I don't get :(
  jetstream games for me seems to be bandwidth-limited just like the rest
of jetstart for me. Does anyone know of a way to resolve this?
  (and yes, I am logging into the gaming context)

> The 3Com box is pretty good for the price IMO, it has a DHCP server
> built in, choice of USB or Ethernet under windows, and lots of other
> cool stuff in the firmware that i haven't played with yet like dns
> server settings.

um. I can't actually agree with any of that. while it does seem to be
running quite a few services (http, telnet, domain, bootp, tftp, snmp, nfs
according to a portscan), they aren't accessible unless logged in as the
admin user. which prevents you from logging into your ISP.
  And seeing as the telnet interface doesn't seem to work and theres no
mention of these services in the web config, they seem to be mostly
useless.

   well, I spose I can agree that its cheap and it works :)

Stephen Lewis

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Received on Thu Feb 1 20:26:34 2001