[Preston] broadband and LInux

[Richard Revis]

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On Friday 16 Jan 2004 9:24 pm, Andrew King wrote:

> What do people think of the various DSL routers out there at the
> moment?  I've messed with a few (including Netgear and Belkin), and
> they've all been a complete pain (or a nightmare even!) to set up, apart
> from the one I got, which was the Zoom X3.  Can anyone else recommend
> the Zoom X*s?

My D-Link DSL-504 was easy enough to set up, including PPP Unbundled mode (ie 
no-nat). The web interface was flexible enough and pretty uncomplicated for 
the easy stuff (not as obvious for the hard stuff, bt then if you need that 
you should know what you are looking at) and underneath it had a fairly 
decent text-only mode listening on a RS232 port.

Beware though, the firewalls in these things are more or less one-way-NAT 
only, anything more complex is beyond them. Behind mine I had a Linux 
firewall box which took all 5 usable IPs and (past some firewall rules) 
allocated 1 on the LAN (to my Linux workstation) 1 via NAT (for guests) and 
some others for virtual services. The FW box itself was only addressable on 
the LAN IP address range. You can do some rather funky things with iptables 
and it's well worth playing with :D

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