On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 10:29, d simak wrote:

> 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.

I run an Alcatel Speed Touch USB modem. It's powered from the USB port,
and the Linux drivers seem pretty good (although I've had the odd crash
- mostly when my line was bad due to a corroded jack in another room
throwing a huge amount of static onto the phone line). I'm hoping newer
drivers will eliminate this problem completely.

The drivers aren't too hard to compile (and are source based - so there
is a much lower chance of them not working with a particular kernel
version and/or distribution). I believe they've been added to the 2.6
kernel series, so things will work "out of the box" when that becomes
common. I don't run 2.6 myself, so take that with a grain of salt.

I bought mine on eBay for NZ$65 including shipping from the US to here.
The model I've got is no longer sold in NZ, but there is a replacement
model that is. I believe that is supported by the same drivers.

It's a modem, so your computer gets a real internet connection, and you
therefore never need to worry about NAT, pinholes, etc. The flipside is
that if you want to support more than one computer on you home network,
then you'll have to run NAT software on your linux box itself. This is,
as you seem to indicate in you question, very easy to set up.

Lastly the modem is also supported on Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X,
which I thought might be useful for me in the future.

> Thanks in advance
> Dean

Cheers,
Edouard.

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