On Fri, 17 May 2002 martin@wrasse.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend what to get and where might be a good place to get
> it? The hardware must work with linux without any binary-only driver. I
> plan to connect several machines and setting up various port forwarding
> etc. Obviously I can do this with one of my machines running linux, but
> I have heard about all-in-one router and ADSL modem devices. Does anyone
> have any experiences with this sort of thing?
I have one of these all-in-one devices of which you speak. The particular
one I have is the AR601 ADSL modem/router which can be purchased from
http://www.seg.co.uk/ for around 179UKP. AIUI there are others, some more
expensive, some cheaper. My router works absolutely fine. It plugs
straight into my hub and off I go. You can set up NAT rules and static
routes on it as well as doing some other funky stuff through either telnet
or RS232. I've started to trust it as a firewall now too, since any ports
that aren't NAT'd are just rejected.
It does have its downsides though, the biggest being that you can't access
your external IP from behind it, ie I can't get at 62.188.200.199 from
within 10.4.* because the router just takes it as an internal connection
or something. Not really a major problem, since when I'm behind the
router I rarely need to send packets out for them to come straight back.
Anyway, I'm wittering on now, so I'll go and witter at someone else, like
my boss :)
HTH,
Carl
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