[Gllug] ADSL Hacking.

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 31 Jan, 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)
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> I've got about ten-twenty people I really trust, and quite frankly,
> the way people work is hardcoded in our DNA.  Nobody "really trusts"
> hundreds of people. --Linus Torvalds, lkml, 20020129
> 
> 
   I assume that BT are contemplating a rush, so are probably changing all
the exchange hardware together. My own phone went dead for a while the other
day. I wonder what would happen if an ADSL filter and router were simply
plugged in to the line....

-- 
Chris Bell


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