[sclug] Linux Firewalls and ADSL

[Chris Aitken]

> Chris,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. I will probably go with IPCop at 
> the moment as I need a quick solution. I guess I will build a 
> firewall based on IPChains and a distro such as debian later 
> when I have time to figure it out and read the o'reilly books 
> I have on the subject.
> 
> I actually have an ethernet DSL bridge (DLink DSL300G+) but 
> unfortunately it only supports dynamic addressing and dlink 
> won't help. It always connects to the Internet, does a DHCP 
> request, gets an IP address and then it then tries to bind to 
> the MAC address that was used to configure the device. I am 
> still looking to see if it can be hacked to support fixed 
> IP.....  Do you know of any ADSL ethernet bridge devices that 
> support fixed IP addressing out of the box?
> 
> Many thanks for you help

> Chris,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. I will probably go with IPCop at 
> the moment as I need a quick solution. I guess I will build a 
> firewall based on IPChains and a distro such as debian later 
> when I have time to figure it out and read the o'reilly books 
> I have on the subject.
> 
> I actually have an ethernet DSL bridge (DLink DSL300G+) but 
> unfortunately it only supports dynamic addressing and dlink 
> won't help. It always connects to the Internet, does a DHCP 
> request, gets an IP address and then it then tries to bind to 
> the MAC address that was used to configure the device. I am 
> still looking to see if it can be hacked to support fixed 
> IP.....  Do you know of any ADSL ethernet bridge devices that 
> support fixed IP addressing out of the box?

I managed to get debian stable down to 140 Mb without any hassle. I'm sure
it will go much much smaller.

I am surprised that a D-Link bridge won't support static addresses. After
all, the primary function of the bridge is to hand over the DHCP/Static part
to the actual firewall thing.

Have you seen [1]?

At work we have a dlink 501 (old kit), that does just the functionality you
need. The 504 also has the same functionality (also old kit).

Zoom also offer an ADSL modem/bridge. I don't know of its suitability,
although it looks OK [2].


Chris

[1] http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/viewtopic.php?t=1309
[2] http://www.zoom.com/products/adsl_overview.html


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