[Gllug] ADSL Hacking.

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Thu Jan 31 11:53:05 UTC 2002


On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:51, you 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
What? So you hacked the BT Openworld Black Box? What does it run. 
I've got the exact same thing here at work. 5 static ip's and all.
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Stephen Harker
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