[SWLUG] Speedtouch DSL modem

[Paul G. Richardson]

Decided to go over to a router for the fun / interest / boredom etc..

Now have the following configuration:

Internal network of 4 computers with gateway address of the Smoothwall 
machine. This now has two NICS (one for internal access) with the new 
NIC connecting on a different VLan to the router/switch. This itself is 
now permanently connected to the internet.

Works a treat and I now get three different types of firewall inbetween 
my client machines and the internet. Whether that makes any difference 
is doubtful really as they are all packet filter firewalls but two 
different networks I thought was pretty cool!

PGR

Adam Rykala wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2004 20:16, Paul G. Richardson wrote:
> 
>>Adam,
>>
>>Just gone over to a router but was using a P166 Box, running Smoothwall
>>with Speedtouch USB off the back of it with NIC card to connect to my
>>internal network. Work like a charm and only rarely had problems when
>>the "Bread Knife" decided that she was in too much of a hurry to
>>shutdown Smoothwall properly so just pressed the power button instead.
>>Still solved this by finding the offending lock file on the box and
>>deleting it.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Paul
> 
> 
> I've only just gone over to DSL (exchange was activated in Nov) and so I'm 
> still feeling around - it seems as if the machine gets very silly load the 
> line drops.... Sometimes its a sod to get back up...
> 
> I've toyed between
> 
> 1) Replacing the USB modem with a router///
> 2) Mucking with Diald to automate
> 3) Just living with it as its not a major problem ;-)
> 
> a