[Gllug] ADSL Linux

[Tethys]

chris.wareham at btopenworld.com writes:

>I've got a six million dollar question that none of the review sites
>has answered for me. What's the best router for BT ADSL if I just
>want one ethernet socket, no builtin firewall and no NAT/IP
>masquerading? Something like the following setup:
>
>Internet ----> [Router] ----> [BSD Firewall] ---> [hub]- - -
>
>I simply want something that allows me to stuff the BT supplied
>Alcatel modem in a cupboard, configure a simple router, and run a
>network of non-USB machines off of it.

Looks identical to my setup. As for the best router, I don't know, but
I'm using the Alcatel one supplied by BT when I got my connection (it
was in the days before wires-only, so I had to take what they gave me).
I had to explicitly ask them to configure it as non-NAT, but once they'd
done that, it all worked fine.

To be honest, if you just want it to be a plain router, then pretty much
*any* of them will do. What makes one router better than another tends to
be the extra features (firewalling, NAT, security policies, etc.), none
of which you're going to be using...

Tet

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