[Gllug] [mildly OT] minimal adsl routers?

[Sean Burlington]

Nix wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, David Damerell yowled:
> 
>>On Tuesday, 12 Aug 2003, Nix wrote:
>>
>>>But the only ADSL ethernet devices I've come across so far (all
>>>admittedly cheapo ones bought by and for others) are these hulking great
>>>feature-ridden monstrosities that provide primitive NAT, equally
>>>primitive firewalling and so on, and normally don't provide a way of
>>>turning the NAT and firewalling *off*.
>>
>>What about the AMX CA61E?
>>
>><http://adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2002/q1/amx-ca61e.asp>
>>
>>We have one; they're cheap as dirt, and as far as I can see all the
>>NAT and port blocking junk can be turned off.
> 
> 
> I was looking at that today and was tempted, but the adslguide review
> didn't mention that the NAT and firewalling could be disabled. One last
> question, then, as you've got one of these beasties: it's got this port
> 80 web junk, turnable down (but not off) in hardware: will that block me
> from forwarding port 80 through to the inside? I'd much rather do that.

you can run the internal web server on any port you choose

> (When I say `disabled', I mean `*everything* passed through'; no ports
> closed at the ASDL modem itself. I do that later on, after snorting and
> so forth. And, no, snort's not running in the same address space as
> either the firewall or the host that looks like but is not the firewall,
> thanks to the wonders of UML and tun.)
> 

I haven't tried this - there seem to be options to do this but so far my 
desire to do this has not equalled the task of interpreting the badly 
translated manual :(

-- 

Sean


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