I have a Linksys BEFSR41 4 port Cable Router. It works flawlessly. It allows you to do MAC spoofing, which I wanted. My home system runs sendmail and apache with no problems. The only anomaly is that when I establish an ssh connection to the Boston Linux server, the connection is broken after a few minutes of idle time. When I received my BEFSR41, I configured the unit from my laptop (which also runs SuSE), installed the latest firmware (the firmware revision on the unit did not support MAC spoofing). Once configured, I connected the unit to the cable modem, shut down and restarted the network on my main system and everything came up. I use static addresses (192.168.0.n) for the two systems in the house that need forwarded ports, and dynamic addresses for the other systems. I run 5 systems in my house, 2 Windows (for wife), my server and main system, my laptop, and my DEC Alpha (Red Hat). Not one of the systems experienced any problem. On 24 Oct 2000, at 8:50, Tim Duggan wrote:
Hi,
On 10/23/00 at 6:49 PM Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Hi everyone, Does anyone here know if/how well a router (for sharing broadband internet like @Home cable internet) works in Linux? I'm looking at the Linksys 4-port Cable/DSL Router (Average Retail $179, Amazon.com $149), which provides a "natural firewall", DHCP services, and a 10/100 (with "Full Duplex 200 Mbps") 4-Port Switch.
Any experience with using one of these things with Linux?
Jerry Feldman