Hi Reagan Chris & everone else ..

so whats the verdict PCI / external ... i did some reading through
past months lists and got alarmed and confused by the PPPoA stuff

how about the Dlink DSL-500 ?

Thanks in advance
Dean

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:23, Chris Day wrote:
> Good point:
> - last time I looked at PCI cards under Linux, ran into PPPoA issues - the Linux drivers for the cards we were testing were only 1/2 written
> - the initial email also indicated 2x nics so assumed this was a preference - the old story, if you assume you make an ass-u-me - should have known better - OK, will shut up now...
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> 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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> 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
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> > 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
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> > do all that. All you need is something to take ADSL off the phone line
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> > 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
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> > not that fast.
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> > Now if it was a Win box, I'd be looking for some form of hardware
> > firewall...
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> > 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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