I have a DSL-504 which is much the same as a DSL-500. You can set it up
to forward ALL incoming traffic to your linux box and then handle it
from there although the traffic will already be NAT'd and that *might*
make some application filters more difficult to handle on your linux
firewall. Other than that I have not had any standout issues with this
device that have not been fixed by subsequent firware upgrades. One
advantage to using an external router is that it does not depend on a
specific linux kernal etc etc as it just routes ethernet/tcp-ip to the
linux box.

I have never set up an internal PCI card (or external USB device) with
linux so I don't know if its easy/hard compatible/problematic etc but I
suggest you have a look on this site http://www.nzadsl.co.nz/howtos.html
for some hints on setting up various devices with Linux systems.

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Regards,
Regan
-----Original Message-----
From: d simak [mailto:greylake@spunge.org] 
Sent: Monday, 4 August 2003 2:12 p.m.
To: Chris Day
Cc: Regan Murphy; adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Subject: RE: which modem is best (Linux)
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...
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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