[Scottish] ADSL connection gotchas?

[William Hamilton]

John Ollason wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I am becoming fed up with my demon dial-up service, and by chance I have 
>inherited a Speedtouch USB ADSL modem. I am planning to try to connect to 
>plus.net using the Premier package. I have downloaded linux firmware from 
>the speedtouch site, 
>
>I am currently running Redhat 7.3.
>
>I have downloaded and installed the
>
>speedtouch-1.2-8rh rpm
>
>I have followed
>
>SpeedTouchUSB-HOWTO using Benoit Papillault's OpenSource drivers
>
>and set the configuration files except for some details to be established.
>
>I have spoken to plus.net and they seem to be reasonably linux-friendly.
>
>I think  that I am more or less ready to go. Are there any absolute 
>horrors that I ought to be thinking about?
>
>I did have a look at ipchains, which seems to have been installed by 
>default, but I get the following message:
>
>$ ipchains --list
>ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
>
>Is this likely to be a problem?
>
>John O.
>
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It won't physically stop you connecting, no, but does iptables work?

You will need it to filter out and block malicious connection attempts.