[sclug] ADSL BTBroadband Modem

Wed Jun 9 12:37:21 UTC 2004

Anyone managed to get BTBroadband's Voyager 100 modem working under
Linux?
I've got Mandrake 10 Community running and have downloaded the French
drivers and done a ./configure, make, make install. Basically I've
followed the instructions given at
http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/index.php?lang=en but have had no luck.

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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:00:38 +0100
From: Scott Rixon <Scott at Green-Flag.com>
Subject: Re: [sclug] Linux Firewalls and ADSL
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| Luckily I'm within reach of ADSL (home and work), and via Zen have 8
IPs...
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| I'm a bit dubious of mains broadband too. Just doesn't seem right.
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Thank you for your recent enquiry on broadband from Southern Electric.
We currently have broadband from Southern Electric available in some
areas of Winchester.

And you still have to be in Winchester!
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:22:57 +0100
From: Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [sclug] Linux Firewalls and ADSL
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Chris Aitken wrote:

>>I was looking at smoothwall and IPCop.  Has anybody got any
>>comments on these products or recommendations regarding other 
>>Linux firewall distro's?

We (that is, work) use Smoothwall Express (the GPL version - 
there's a commercialware version as well). Fairly simple 
setup in our case but it's worked well for us. FWIW they 
seem to have got to significant pains to support all the 
wyrd and wonderful USB ADSL / cable modems that are out 
there (with what success, I'm not sure).

> Hi Steve,
> 
> I looked into this not so long ago, and my conclusion was that it was 
> better to set up the firewall myself using iptables (part of the 2.4 
> kernel). Iptables is at the heart of both ipcop & smoothwall, but 
> writing the scripts yourself (relatively simple) will put you in good 
> stead as to what actualy goes on. Everything you need (NAT, DMZ etc 
> can be done this way). Smoothwall will only allow 1 DMZ, whereas I 
> wanted one for webservers etc, and another for a wireless access 
> point.

I'd add the proviso that you'd need to be really sure of 
what you're doing to go down this route. Certainly doing it 
yourself will give you valuable expertise, but a live 
firewall isn't the best place to learn - there's too much 
risk if you make a mistake.
> 
> IIRC for the VPN solution, you may have to do that yourself, depending

> on whether you are trying to connect a network to a network, or a 
> single PC to a remote network. I have set up the latter very simply 
> using the PPTP daemon. This does require a kernel recompile to enable 
> encryption (although you can run a VPN without encryption).

Are you aware of this? http://www.schneier.com/pptp.html

Will.

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:21:16 +1000 (EST)
From: Roland Turner <raz.fpyht.bet.hx at raz.cx>
Subject: RE: [sclug] Linux Firewalls and ADSL
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Mark wrote:

> I don't know what your price budget is (looks slightly more expensive 
> than the average DSL)but this runs with 1:1 contention ratio as 
> opposed to the 50:1 ratio you typically get with DSL.

(scepticism)

Do you actually believe that:

(a) Southern Electric is plugged directly into a/some first tier global
backbone provider(s) (Level 3, UUNet, one or two others) rather than,
say, BT

and

(b) the sum of their port speeds with that/those provider(s) is equal to
or greater than the sum (i.e. 1:1 contention ratio) of the port speeds
offered to all of their customers? (e.g. A mere 10,000 customers with
500Kb/s connections would require cross-connects totalling a
gob-smacking 5Gb/s.)

- Raz

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