[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

[Dylan]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:30 pm, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Wed 21 Jan Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Can you make any recommendations on that?  My experience has been
> > that cheap routers don't do good passthrough, that of the routers
> > being sold to the Soho markets the only ones doing good passthrough
> > are the more expensive ones capable of either offering VPN
> > capability (for example) or passing it through.
>
> I don't know if this is what you mean by passthrough, but I'm running
> my router in bridging mode, so it bridges pppoa to pppoe, then
> running pppoe and a pppd on the OpenBSD box, so it's actually that
> that makes the ppp connection.  Then I can firewall on ppp0 as my
> internet interface.
>
> The actual router was the uber cheap (well 35 quid) dabs one with the
> Conexant chipset, as previously recommended on here by someone else:
>
> http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/productView.htm?quicklinx=17
>P7

Doug -

I have the 4 port model of this and have been trying (without success) 
to set it up for bridging - can you give me any pointers?

TIA

Dylan

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