Suggest you keep it simple as far as hardware is concerned and use the power of Linux to take care of routing, firewall, etc. Products like DSL500 or DSE XH1149 in 1/2 bridge mode (so real world IP ends up at your box) are the shot (even an old Nokia Ni500 would probably do). You don't need fancy things like NAT/NAPT, ports, etc - leave Linux to do all that. All you need is something to take ADSL off the phone line and present it to your inbound (WAN) 10/100Mbps UTP NIC port - and if hardware only runs at 10Mbps, thats no problem either - ADSL is simply not that fast.

Now if it was a Win box, I'd be looking for some form of hardware firewall...

Rgds, Chris...

-----Original Message-----
From: d simak [mailto:greylake@spunge.org]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:29 AM
To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Subject: which modem is best (linux)

Hello all ,
   
I am new to ADSL,and do not yet have a connection,i wish to know what
available modems will work best with my Linux Box which will have two
nics and perform firewall nat etc for the lan and any other helpfull
advice.

Thanks in advance
Dean

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