[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

[Dylan]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 20:04 pm, Nix wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, dylan at dylan.me.uk moaned:
<SNIP>
> i.e., it bridges layer 3, but *not* layer 2. Since most of us don't
> want to piss about with PPPoAnything this is generally a good idea.

Indeed, I can't lay my hands on enough high quality goats for that!

>
> > You only need to set up the routing table on the gateway with the
> > relevant settings, which I managed to work out by trial and error
> > from the modem's route table.
>
> The Conexant firmware is much more `amusing' than that.

I was assuming that anyone thinking about these setups would be 
conversant with the arcane booting procedures.

>
> To get it working, you have to do this:

There's more than one way to shear a goat! I've found it only manages to 
assign an IP when iptables is stopped, and restarted after the IP is 
assigned. I do have a constant stream of:

Jan 25 18:05:39 192.168.250.251 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 
10.0.0.2 port 67
Jan 25 18:05:39 192.168.250.251 dhclient: DHCPACK from AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
Jan 25 18:05:39 192.168.250.251 dhclient: bound to AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD -- 
renewal in 25 seconds.

AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD = my external IP

at intervals of between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Always with a renewal 
time between 20 and 35 seconds. He ho, I'll get round to filtering them 
out of the logs at some point if I can't work out how to get rid of 
them entirely.

Dylan

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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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