[Gllug] ADSL Hacking.

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:51:28AM -0000, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> Ok, after time, and effort - the stingray/showerhead sucks.
> 
> I also have one of BT's "anonymous black boxes" for Ethernet based ADSL.
> It's totally unconfigurable from anything, all locked up and tight as a
> drum.  (This is on Openworld BTW, who are planning to announce a "wires
> only" service themselves soon, I was told last night by one of their
> techies)

Will it take as long to introduce as the original ADSL testing and roll out ?

> Last night I "hacked it" all open and set it up nicely, even with
> Dynamic IP, I now have web-servers at home that the public can see
> (http://virtuallife.homelinux.net for example) - and it's still all nice
> and secure with a BLOODY good firewall, all on the box....
> 
> I will, when free time permits, (to quote a fellow GLLUG member,
> todolist ending with "Fly to moon in spacerocket") I'll do a HOWTO, but
> if anyone wants to do this, I'll be happy to provide pointers,
> cable-pinouts, software, config files, Router Kernel upgrades and
> firewall config's :) Maybe even come over hang out at your place while
> we do it, bring over my serial cable (which appears to be different to a
> CISCO console cable - my CISCO one never worked)
> 
> 	-Cheers, Darran

For those with the Ethernet option, I had to do some tests on the 
SpeedStream 5861 router about a year or two ago and managed to follow 
these instruction with a little modification:
	http://www.atoker.com/bb/faq/

It also details the pin outs for the RJ45 serial console port on the back.

The manuals for the router are at:
	http://www.efficient.com/products/routbus.html

The installation manuals seem to use a windows interface but the technical 
reference details the various commands, but not all their uses. The router's 
console has a "help" option that lists the full range of commands but not 
what they do.

Prehaps it would be useful to set up a site that has documents on both type 
of ADSL and also some notes on the various tests that you can do (eg using 
bt_test at startup_domain as the username to check that you can link to a BT 
box across ATM) ?

ps. Was anyone else in West London effected by an ADSL outage yesterday 
(30/01/02) between 2pm and 6pm, supposedly cause by by problems in ATM ?

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