no!! you beat me to it! :-) I've been waiting for my jetstart to be
installed before I was going to start playing around with the modem.
(Telecom screwed up my install date, was sposed to go in 26/1, but they had
'accidently' scheduled for 26/2, lucky I rang them up and got it rescheduled
for wednesday)

masqing should be easy, I've already got my masq/firewall script for the 56K
modem, and I dont see why it couldn't just be used without any
modifications.

So to access the games server do you change the login on the linux machine
or through the configuration on the modem? If its on the linux machine it
might be easy enough to create a script, which can be called from the
internal machines without having to go through the whole login process (hehe
script laziness).

If anyones interested I found the web page of the guy who did the huge
investigation of the modem. Its goes into a bit more depth than the post he
made on dslreports.com.

http://www.bbarrera.com/networks.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: dan carter [mailto:dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 17:44
To: adsl@unixathome.org
Subject: 3Com HomeConnect ADSL Dual Link - success!

Well, we just got this modem going with linux, so i can confirm that
this modem works with linux on the Telecom NZ network as per the link
posted previously about using the (GPLed) roaring penguin PPPoE dialer.

Ran the windows set-up software initially to configure the modem into
PPPoA mode and set the ATM/ADSL virtual channel stuff. But you should
be able to do this through the telnet interface if you don't have a
windows box handy.

Once the modem is in PPPoA mode you just run the PPPoE client software
on an ethernet connected machine to establish a PPP connection to the
ISP, and then you have a native ppp interface on the linux box.

Didn't test linux masquerading over it but it should be pretty straight
forward to masquerade over the ppp interface just as if it was a
standard dialup connection.

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

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.

It's certainly the cheapest if not only linux compatible modem i've
seen. And when hooked up to a $25 486 or old pentium linux box it
offers competition to the more expensive NAT router modems.

HTH,
dan.

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