[Wylug-help] Bridge Filtering

[James Holden]

Dan,

What spec is the BSD box?

If it's an old pentium machine or lower then find a whacking great
heatsink and ditch the CPU fan.

Turn off logging and such and the hard disk should stay spun down as long
as it's only shovelling packets.

The PSU fan can be quietened down by popping it open and connecting the
fan across the 5 and 12 volt supplied to that it runs off 7 volts (12
minus 5) instead of the full 12 volts. You should still get the cooling
you need but around half the revs.

You could also try some traditional acoustic methods, ie: shove it in a
cupboard, or under a duvet! Just allow for airflow.

Works for me - my router box is in the lounge cos that's where the NTL
cable box is.

James


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> On Monday 20 Jan 2003 10:32, Simon Wood wrote:
>> If you place the ADSL router into bridge mode, the BSD box will have
>> to be given your public IP address. This will leave the Windoze box
>> out in the cold (without an IP) and you'd have to bring it into the
>> main network i.e. behind the BSD firewall.
> Yeah, that's what I thought. Sadly, the OpenBSD box is too noisy to have
> in the room where the ADSL router is - my flatmate wouldn't get any
> sleep...
>
>
> <snip>
>> Two comments I found about Virtual Servers.
>> 1). Router based DHCP server must be off.
> That'll be it, then.
>
>> 2). Router needs to be rebooted for Virtual Servers to work.....
> I knew that...
>
>
>> Good luck, and have you remembered to change the default passwords as
>> the ftp (flash update) is visable from the ADSL side by default
>> (Doh!!).
> I know. Bit of a elementary error, isn't it?
>
> Dan
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