On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Chris Frederick wrote: > I looked at Best Buy and CompUSA for ADSL modems that would work like my > IDSL at home, but they all seem to be firewall/routers. I googled for > the router and Linux and came up with very little, so I'm wondering if > it will work as a modem connected through USB on Linux. Does anyone > have any experience with this router, or can anyone recommend a > router/modem that would work better? The Actiontec routers work ok.. here's some options for what you could do in your situation: 1) Let the ActionTec do NAT for you, port forward 80 into an internal box 2) Use the "DMZ" feature (or whatever they call it) to forward everything from your external IP into your linux gateway; do NAT on that. 3) Buy a 4-ip subnet (2 usable, one for Actiontec, one for Linux box), and get a public IP on your Linux box that way. 4) Set the actiontec router up as a rfc1483 bridge, run a PPPoE client on the Linux box to get the external static IP on your linux box. Untested, but it should work. 5) Buy the 'S518' PCI DSL card from Sangoma, and say buh-bye to external routers! -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list