[ale] DSL Router for Bellsouth

[John Wells]

Jeff,

Don't know about the pci modem.  I use an external Alcatel @home dsl modem
and in the past have set up the smoothwall box (or smoothie, as it's
called) with three nics, one for interfacing with the dsl modem, one with
my internal network, and one for my DMZ (web server, mail server, etc.).

Smoothwall handles all NAT and firewall stuff, and also has snort built in
for ids.  You might try popping out to their irc server (listed on the
site, I think it's irc.smoothwall.org, iirc) and asking on one of the
support channels.  Also, groups.google.com will never fail you.

One last avenue...depending on how long you've had the pci modem, you
could always call bellsouth and ask for a trade/upgrade to an external
modem.

imo, if someone out there has gotten the pci modem to work with linux, it
will work with smoothwall, which is just a minimalist linux install.

Another thing I liked about smoothwall is that it has built-in dyndns (and
other) clients.

Let me know if I can provide any other assistance.

John

Jeff Layton said:
> John,
>
>    I like this idea (more stuff to play with :). I started to look
> through the documentation (I'm printing it as we speak).
> I've got a basic configuration question. I have a PCI DSL
> modem (isn't it just a NIC?). Would I just pop this DSL
> modem in the smoothwall box as well as a NIC and then
> the smoothwall box will act as a NAT and a firewall?
> Has anyone done this with the Bellsouth DSL modem
> (it's a PCI card)? (Sorry for the stupid questions).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
>
> John Wells wrote:
>
>> Find a 486 and install smoothwall (smoothwall.org).  Cheaper than a
>> router, and same functionality for the most part.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Jeff Layton said:
>> > Good morning,
>> >
>> >    I'm currently connected to Bellsouth DSL on a Windows box
>> > that is set up for ICS so I can connect my Linux box. It's a real
>> pain to configure ICS so I'd like to switch to a DSL router
>> > (wireless is unncessary). What recommendations do people
>> > have? I'd like one with a firewall to add some more protection (all
>> the boxes run firewalls of some type). Any opinions on that?
>> >
>> > TIA!
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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