[Gllug] ADSL Linux

[chris.wareham at btopenworld.com]

Tethys <tet at accucard.com> wrote:
> chris.wareham at btopenworld.com writes:
> 
> >
> >Internet ----> [Router] ----> [BSD Firewall] ---> [hub]- - -
> >
> 
> 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...
> 

BT gave you a router rather than a modem? Was this the home package, or
was this one of the more business orientated ones?

Chris

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