Surely an internal PCI ADSL modem would be the easiest to set up for
this purpose. You don't need to mess around with VPNs and NAT and other
nasty things - the PCI card should appear as an eth interface and should
be assigned the real world ip address. I imagine it would also be the
cheapest option too? As for performance and speed PCI Card vs Router
might be an issue though as I remember arguments about quality and power
consumption etc.

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Regards,
Regan
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
Behalf Of d simak
Sent: Monday, 4 August 2003 12:52 p.m.
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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