dont get an Ni500, put simply. They suck.

- They overheat (I've seen several that have been run in a freezer just to
keep them working normally (funny sight seing phone/cat5 and power coming out
of a freezer.) )

- They dont perform NAT
- They dont do tunneling to get the real world IP on the linux box properly
(if at all)

Cheers,
Rob

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 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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