Actually, put you wrong on Ni500 - since found out that you should avoid this one for one reason or another.

Lance posted a note about saving time and using a router+SW to do the job - my advise is:
- a router+SW certainly will do the job and it is a good quick fix for users not familiar with networking (AKA Windows :-)
- if you know what your doing (I assume you do from your intial email re 2x nics, etc), then simple bridge hardware + Linux is going to give you alot more flexibility and you'll end up with a future proof solution - this is important given many internet standards are evolving or yet to be thought of.
- the hardware cost will be less but if setup time is a cost factor, the "total solution" could cost more - Linux may take some setting up. If you know your way around Linux and timing is not and issue, it should end up costing less to acheicve a far

-----Original Message-----
From: d simak [mailto:greylake@spunge.org]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:52 PM
To: Chris Day
Cc: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Subject: RE: which modem is best (linux)

Thanks Chris,

Do the Nokia Ni500 support 1/2 bridge mode ?
there are a few listed on Trademe for a good price ..
all i want is something to take the ADSL off the phone line
and present it to one of my nics ,(no fancy stuff like ports or
firewalling as i leave all that to the linux Box)

i would be pleased to read any other advice concerning such a setup

Regards
Dean

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:47, Chris Day wrote:
> 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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