[Wolves] Blueyonder broadband and *nix firewall

[Ron Wellsted]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 03:57, Old Dan wrote:
> Simon Burke wrote:
> > Heya,
> > I've seemed to have practically disappeared from exsistance recently,
> > sorry.
> > 
> > Anyway, im soon to move house and having blueyonder installed.
> > I want to use (as the firewall) either a smoothie or try mandrakes
> > 'multi network firewall' (MNF), but does anyone know how I'd set it
> > up? (in terms of the modem talkin to the firewall). I've been given
> > the impression its as simple as giving them (telewest) the mac
> > address and just configure the NIC for DHCP.
> > 
> > Is that right? Or do I need to setup username/password stuff to be
> > sent to the modem whenever I need to reconect?  Or anything like
> > that, and does smoothwall & MNF support the modem..
> Yep.  BY still supply modems with an ethernet connection facility so it 
> really is that simple.
> 
> There is a usb connection too on the same modem but I have no idea 
> whether there is a USB linux driver for it, nor whether it is included 
> in smoothie or MNF.  I'd say even if there is one existing it probably 
> isn't included.

Yes, it really is that simple.

for details see
<http://www.linux.com/howtos/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/index.shtml>

The USB connection is supported in Linux when the kernel has CDCEther
modules compiled.

-- 
Ron Wellsted
http://www.wellsted.org.uk
ron at wellsted.org.uk
N 52.567623, W 2.137621
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